Hell's Gate on the Trent Severn

Here is the Kawartha Lakes version of Hell's Gate. That is a RC Church on the rock and the parishioners take their boats to church. It is a very narrow passage and you have to really watch the channel and markers.

Peterborough Lift Lock

On Friday, Aug. 3rd we went through the Peterborough Lift Lock. Basically you move your boat into a large basin of water and they close the gates and lift the basin, and all inside, up 60 feet to the water level above. Like going up an open air elevator in a bathtub!! After that we worked our way through 6 locks in about 8 miles and spent the night in Lakefield. Today we're at Youngs Point and will be heading for Stony Lake shortly where we hope to hang out on the hook around the many islands. Hopefully avoiding the multitude of rocks.

Peterborough

We arrived in the city of Peterborough on August first. We are at the Peterborough Marina with a nice view of the fountain in Little Lake and adjacent to a park and the main street in town. They have a concert and fireworks every Wednesday night so we got to enjoy the show. Since we expect to be anchored out in the middle of Stony Lake on our anniversary, August 3rd we decided to go to dinner while in town.

Rice Lake to Peterborough

Some of the sights on the trip from Rice Lake to Peterborough.

Map of the Trent Severn Waterway

Click to enlarge. Some people were asking for our location. I hope these maps will help. The road map will help get you oriented from a land/driving point of view, the water map shows how the lakes are joined by rivers and canals. The little red > with names next to them indicate locks we go through to change elevation and get around dams. We started in Trenton, lower right, and are now in Peterborough a bit right of the middle of the map. We will be wandering through the system for most of August eventually entering Georgian Bay. Georgian Bay is mostly off the map in the extreme upper left corner.

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Where is the camera?

We missed some good shots. On our way to Lock 18 and Hastings we passed a log with five turtles on it. By the time the camera came out there was an empty log.

Last Sun. we made reservations to play golf. We anchored off and dinghyed in where a golf cart was waiting for us. We decided, site unseen, that we wanted a cart. We were glad that we had --it was like a goat hill. There really wasn't a cart path for the most part and when there was one the ruts were so bad we had to go real slow. Anyway, the best part of the golf course was the view. From every hole, fairway and tee box you looked out over Rice Lake and the islands. There was no one in front of us and no one behind us, we lost a lot of balls since the high weeds and gulleys ate them. We got back to the boat and took a swim. It was a perfect day.

The next day we anchored off one of the islands in Rice Lake in dinghyed into a marina. We were walking around and saw some ducks walking on lillypads--where is the camera?