Day 319: Saturday, July 20, 2013

Port to Port: Sainte Anne de Bellevue

Underway: 0:00 am      Motor Off: 0:00 pm      Miles Traveled: 0      Stayed At: Lock Wall

Mile 97 to Mile 97: With another down day on the schedule, we started the day making a hot breakfast of hard-boiled eggs and waffles (Aunt Jemima toaster waffles in a fry pan).  A little more fun than our usual cereal and fruit. We could have probably left today but the wind started kicking up pretty good early and it was a Saturday so there was a fair amount of boat traffic out there. Tomorrow is supposed to be perfect so we decided to wait one more day.

We wandered around town exploring the nearby parks and waterfront. Except for a lot of overpriced restaurants and bars and a few shops, there isn’t much else to hold your interest here. I wouldn’t want to be stranded here for as long as we were in Kingston, NY. Next time we’ll have to take a train to visit nearby Montreal for a few days.

We stopped and sat in front of the library (closed on the weekend) for a while and used their wifi to call home on the computer. We were only half successful but it was free.

With nothing important on our task list, we packed a picnic and walked over to the other side of the lock and enjoyed peanut butter sandwiches on fresh, warm bread before going back to the boat and taking advantage of the quiet downtime to read, relax and take naps. We decided to move our boats to the high side of the lock so we could leave really early tomorrow. We bought a tub of ice cream and offered to share with Kent and Jane (which they readily agreed to) and we sat in their cockpit eating our $3 (on special) quart of caramel vanilla swirl ice cream with almonds and enjoyed the end of another memorable day on the Great Loop.