The Day of Luxury.
Slept well in a small cove in the Lost Channel and woke up to a lovely sunny/ misty day. Cleaned up the ship for inspection and slowly cruised a couple of miles to the Big Chute. The BC is where there is a drop of about 100 feet. There is no lock there. So we
Drove onto a submerged dolly or platform. Two slings lifted us up and the whole dolly came out of the water and we rumbled silently over a railroad rail Over the edge of this rock wall and down to the waiting pool below. It took but a few minutes. We were fortunate to have our friends Natalie and Jim Moir with us on this part of the trip. Natalie and I graduated from Bates College together 49years ago. What a thrill this Big Chute was. We took Natalie down the canal to a wonderful hotel at Port Severn and Jim met us there. We are staying in the lap of,luxury for 2 nights. Now just enjoying good company and good food and a real bed.
I thought we would finish the canal system today, but the hotel is located exactly at the last lock and we are not likely to finish lock 45 in this system until the 18th when we push off on part two of our odyssey and tackle Georgian Bay, Lake Huron And upper Lake Michigan.
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