Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Wall St. Ours Lock

45 51.961N
73 08.741W
These Montreal folks helped us tie up on the wall outside of the lock for the night.  Their party was just breaking up and they were headed for home.  We purchased a pass to tie up at any Parks Canada location.


Unique lock, we tied to the floating dock in the lock at St. Ours

Quebec Province flag on left was seen in the Quebec Province area we travelled more than the Canadian flag.
Had to wait for this cable ferry to be sure the cable was on the bottom of the river before we passed over it
St. Anton - another town, another big church!

One of several cable ferries along the way. 
Do you think we will make this one?

Beautiful scenery and only one lock to go today
Seaplane port along the way

Fort at Chambly as seen from the Chambly Basin
Laura had the hottest job, in the cockpit holding the line

Flight of three locks, the front door of this lock is the back door of the next

Restaurant in Chambly

Town of Chambly, took some time to walk around since the bridge that we have to go through closes down for lunch



Waiting while the lock tenders manually let the water out
Nice flowers at the lock
                              
Still waiting
Waiting for another boat to join us in the lock
Approaching Lock

Another manually operated bridge

Corn fields along the way

Oldest Bridge on the Canal still manually operated

Bridge tender was very concerned about this sickly looking cormorant

Typical home on the canal
On the Chambly Canal, today we will have to have several bridges opened and pass through 9 locks in 10 miles!

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