Day 67 – Saturday, August 15, 2009Our boats are officially in Georgian Bay! Once the two boats were safely moored at the Midland Harbor Town Dock we had a bottle of champagne to celebrate our completion of the Trent Severn Waterway! The lock we passed through this morning was the smallest lock (80 ft. long and 24 ft. wide) in the system and will be the last lock for this year, giving us a total of 128 locks. Our next lock will be when we enter Lake Superior next summer on our return home.
The picture is the largest outdoor historical mural in North Ameri
ca, and the theme is echoed throughout downtown Midland, where murals painted on downtown buildings record the rich history of the town as a busy fur trading, lumbering, fishing and
transportation port.Our latest plan is to cruise Georgian Bay for the next month and then, putting “Moor $tuff” into winter storage until next season. Leaving the boat in Canada will seam strange, but it’s the most economical and easiest thing for us to do! Our biggest problem facing us will be to recover our car that we left in Vermont! At present we are thinking that we’ll pick up the car in Vermont, then drive back to the boat and load it up with items that need to return to Illinois
