Shoes, Shops and Songs

Bobcaygeon is one of our favorite stops.  The name 'Bobcaygeon' was derived from the Ojibwa words bob cajwin or "narrow place between two rocks where water rushes through".  The name fits because it is narrow, rocky and the current is rushing.  It is also very pretty with lovely homes on the waterway.

Also, the Trent-Severn's first lock was built here in 1833.  We went to a museum of the family of Mossom Boyd, a lumberman, who helped to develop this area in the 1800's.  The old Boyd Co. office building is now the home of the Bobcaygeon Chamber of Commerce and the Boyd family museum.

Shoes, more shoes, cute shops and ice cream are the main draws for this town in the 21st century.  I am wearing a sweater and it's July.

Bigley's - pretty shops.

Shoes and clothes, outside.

Shoes inside.

More Bigley's.

King gets a phone call from a customer.  They would be surprised to see his "sidewalk office".

Another cute restaurant.

 My Favorite Things, beautiful flowers in a pretty setting.

After looking at the pretty stores, we went into Kawartha Coffee Co.  Really good!

It seemed a bit odd, but Willie Nelson music played in the background of this coffee shop.

Who is looking at you in the mirror?

We are!

A wicket?  That is what Canadian banks call a window.  

We were fortunate to be in Bobcaygeon on a Thursday night, for the Music in the Park.  The Claytones are a Canadian (from Clayton, Ontario) folk rock group that we really enjoyed.  

Blue Moon is parked at the end of the lock wall.  People listened to the singing from both sides of the canal wall.