Day 66 – Friday, August 14, 2009

Today was a great day – we traveled 43 miles dropped 68 feet through two locks and then rode the Big Chute Marine Railway another 57 feet down to the level of the Georgian Bay. The Big Chute was a huge, treat for Barb and me! We consider ourselves lucky that they selected our boat to enter the rail platform first then placed us in the center of the platform which is equivalent to riding in the first seat on a roller coaster. The view was great and the whole experience from start to finish was over in less than ten minutes. For me – the whole concept of a big platform that rises out of a lake on RR tracks and lifts your boat out of the water on slings, drives across a highway with railroad

gates stopping the traffic and bells clanging, then travels down two sets of RR tracks into a lake 57 feet below where you float off the slings is just over the top!

At present we are moored at Severn Boat Haven in Port Severn one lock away from entering Georgian Bay. It’s time to pull out the next set of charts and start another adventure!