Shore Thing

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Port d'escale Marina, Montreal

45 30.336N

73 33.006W

Amphibious bus/boat

Saying good bye to Laura at the train station

Evening picture looking from Shore Thing

More clock tower

US Pavillion from Expo

Shoot the rapids

Current of about 5 1/2 knots against that boat to get into Montreal Old Port, we had the same current against us when we came in.

Clock Tower up close

View looking towards city

Laura and Ed

Laura and Linda at the Yatch Club

More views

View of Olympic Stadium from Mount Royal

Port d'escale Marina--new Marina in the heart of Old Port

Montreal Yatch Club Marina by the Clock Tower

Clock Tower as the water calms going into Montreal Harbor

Molson is quit prominent in Montreal

Amusement Park on the Island near Montreal

Along the way

View of the Olympic stadium from the Seaway behind the cargo

Finally got an internet connection! Not sure what this Canadian Coast Guard boat is doing going up the St. Lawrence Seaway. Looks like he is raking the water for debris.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Parc Nortique de Saurel Marina

46 03.007N

73 05.543W

Our Lady of aluminum roof, there were a number of aluminum painted roofs around, does it have to do with ice and snow?

Walked downtown Sorel and had lunch

We were going to anchor in the St. Lawrence Seaway tonight but the prediction was for gale force winds. We decided to go the a marina to ride out the storm that never happened but it was windy.

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!

Monday, July 26, 2010

Lock 9 Wall, St Jean, Quebec, Chambly Canal

45 18.745N

73 15.04W

Walking around town

A path starts at this lock and ends ten miles away at the next lock. A lot of people were using the path today.

We have a good view from our dockage at Lock 9

Children of all ages watching the boats in the lock

Only lock today. These locks are the smallest we have seen and only went down less than a foot!

Just passed Canadian Customs--real windy day and these little guys are trying to make it across the river in front of us. At first they were not making much progress but then they got their act together. We are now in french speaking Quebec.