Wed, July 18th– Day 75: Buckhorn to Fenelon Falls – We left Buckhorn early on Wednesday, wanting to make a mid-day stop at the resort town of Bobcaygeon. In almost anybody else’s blogs about the Trent-Severn, or any of the cruising guides for the canal, there is a mention about the fabulous shoe store in Bobcaygeon, so that was, for sure, something that we (or at least, Belinda) needed to see. So we pulled into Bobcaygeon about 11 am, jumped off the boat, and meandered around the town for a couple of hours, visited the obligatory shoe store, ate lunch at Subway, and then, returned to Rickshaw, and departed for our final destination of Fenelon Falls, another quaint village. This part of the Trent-Severn is also renowned for the extreme weediness and shallowness of the lakes, which were made worse by the relatively mild and dry winter. Mid-way across one of the lakes, I (Jim) started having trouble pushing Rickshaw through what felt like pudding, so, instead of trying to continue our journey with props and propshafts wrapped with weeds, dropped our anchor in the middle of the lake, and jumped into the brisk water to inspect the props and clean the vegetation off of the bottom of the props. After about 45 minutes, we were back on our way. At this point, the rivers were no longer skirted by marshlands, and started transitioning into pine and cedar tree lined streams, with tall granite rocks lining very narrow channels between the many lakes. At times, the channels were so narrow that we were advised to broadcast a security message over the VHF radio prior to entering a narrow channel to notify any oncoming boats of our presence in the channel, because there was barely enough, if at all, room for 2 boats to pass each other in the channel. At one point, in the middle of the navigation, we struck something hard on the bottom, which we had done several times before. We ended the day at Fenelon Falls, so named because of the waterfall that is formed with the water coming through the dam next to the Fenelon Falls lock, where we met & visited with other loopers, Jerry & Janet from Kansas on Wind Song, a 42 ft Carver.
Jim - checking the props for weeds and dings
Fenelon Falls
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Rickshaw - is the big kid on the block. This is at Bobcageon
Belinda - a quick stop at the falls before going to THE shoe store!
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