At Trent Port Marina!

This blog will chronicle our (Pat and Patty Anderson's)

cruising adventures on the Great Loop!

DAY 90 - June 29, 2017

We are all registered now to stay here through next Tuesday night and head out on the Trent-Severn Waterway on Wednesday morning! We got the weekly rate, which is basically seven days for the price of five and a half, and with the exchange rate, it is a screaming good deal, in a very nice marina, in a very interesting town, which we hope to get to see when the weather settles down!

It rained off and on all day today. It would let up for a little while, and we would get all excited and think about taking the bikes down - then it would start up raining again. It did this all day and on into the evening! 

This morning we did our laundry (it is free here, and they even provide the detergent for the washer and Bounce sheets for the dryer!), and took our showers. Honestly, I need to take pictures of the bathroom/shower pods, they are so unique - and they provide a fresh bath mat for each use that you put in a hamper in the laundry room when you are done! I think all they need is a cart that brings a morning newspaper and free coffee and croissants to each boat on the dock! 

Today during a little break in the rain we walked over to the Metro Supermarket across the street and re-provisioned a bit, we will probably go back because we were kind of limited to what we could carry!  

The rest of the day we played computer and read our Kindles, since it was raining and there was not much else we could do. Plans for when/if it stops raining include visiting the Trent Port Historical Museum, which we are told has a great little cafe, maybe biking to the Canadian Air Force Museum at the air base, and for sure biking to Lock 1 to get our free lock pass and buy our mooring permit. In the afternoon, we had ice cream - there is an ice cream shop in the marina building. They also have a Happy Hour from 5 to 8 p.m. every evening in the marina building, but we did not feel like braving the rain to go to it!

Our plans for tomorrow, Friday, are totally weather dependent, and the forecast is for more rain! Saturday, July 1, is Canada Day, and there is supposed to be a big fireworks show directly across from the marina - we might all be sitting out on our folding chairs in our raincoats with umbrellas, but we'll be there rain or shine. Actually, it probably will remind us of the typical Fourth of July weather in Birch Bay!

I think I will probably do a single blog post for the remaining marina days, since repeating "we played computer and read our Kindles" would get kind of dull after a bit! That is subject to change if the weather gets better and we can actually do something interesting!