It's Island TIme

We sadly left Lakefield, ON with its quaint shops, beautiful flowers and narrow canals.

A Bed & Breakfast, restaurant and pretty flower boxes.

Coffee shop with more pretty flowers.

Christ Church of Lakefield, ON built in 1854, with adjacent cemetery of founding members.

Leaving the Lakefield lock wall, we are in a very narrow gorge with little or no room to pass another boat.  It was pretty and fortunately we did not meet another boat coming toward us. 

Today we entered an area called Kawartha Lakes.  This area is a very popular vacation spot for Canadians and has many lakeside homes, cottages and houseboats.  This area is characterized by a series of lakes joined by locks.  The guide books say that Native Indians traveled these waterways by canoe some 3,000 years ago.

The names of the areas that we boated through today give a hint to the locations:  Clear Lake, Stony Lake, Hells Gate, Burleigh Falls and Lovesick.
Pretty house in town, on the canal.

Many homes on their own island.

Church on its island.

It doesn't show up in the pictures, but there are red and green markers that we follow that mark the channels.  Today we were twisting and turning to avoid rocks and shallow water, but it was pretty and, we thankfully avoided the rocks.

Tonight we are at the town of Buckhorn at Lock 31.  The town got its name because the founder had buck horns mounted on his trading post.  Tonight we went for pizza with Lon and Pat from C.A.R.I.B. II, whom we first met at Solomons, Maryland.  They have two cousins visiting with them, one from Canada and one from the Ukraine.  Topped off dinner with famous Kawartha ice cream.