Deseronto

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

cruising adventures on the Great Loop!

DAY 88 - June 27, 2017

Trenton was a bit farther from Prinyer's Cove than we wanted to travel, especially since it was raining, so we set our sights on the anchorage at Deseronto, about halfway to Trenton. We reached Deseronto about 12:30 p.m. and set the hook a short distance off Centennial Park in Deseronto.

This little Ontario town is the eastern gateway to the Bay of Quinte. It was named for a Mohawk Indian, Capt. John Deserontyon (aka Deseronto), who became a captain in the British army and led a band of Mohawk warriors who fought with the British against the Americans in the Revolutionary War.  The town was laid out by Deserontyon's grandson, John Culbertson, was incorporated as a Village named Mill Point in 1881, but  the name was changed to Deseronto in 1889.

Two dollar courtesy flag!

Patty and I paddled into Centennial Park and walked into town, with three objectives. First was to go to the grocery store, Your Town Grocery, since we had a little shopping list. Second was to go to the LCBO (liquor store), since we had pretty much taken care of any excess bar stock by the time we crossed the Canadian border - with NEXUS passes, we need to be absolutely straight arrow. Third, and perhaps most important, was to get some kind of Canadian flag we could use as a courtesy flag until we get to a chandlery to get a proper flag! We were headed for the Dollar Store, but found flags displayed in the window of the pharmacy, probably for Canada Day, July 1st, for all of $1.85. We now have a temporary courtesy flag flying on Daydream's VHF antenna! 

Your Village Grocer is a fairly small store, but has everything you need even if it doesn't have everything you want! It has an exceptional meat market, and we stocked up on fresh meat, which we re-wrapped and put in the freezer. We were looking for Tonkatsu sauce, which we thought would be a long shot, and it was, but we bought some plum-prune sauce that went very well with our panko coated port cutlets! The LCBO, we knew, would be a shock at the checkout counter, and it was! But when we checked the real cost factoring in the exchange rate with out credit union banking app, all was good again. More expensive than the U.S. for sure but the exchange rate really mitigated that!

The town has a couple of pretty impressive buildings, the Post Office and the Town Hall, but the rest of the buildings in town, not so much!

Deseranto Post Office

Deseranto Town Hall

Across the little bay, the effect of the elevated water levels was apparent, as many of the boat houses at the marina there were significantly submerged.

Submerged boat houses at marina

I also kept looking at two boats in the marina across the way. I could not tell if the red boat was a little toy boat or if the green boat was simply a giant! They certainly looked odd together!

Little boat, big boat

So now it is on to Trenton! We have reservations for two nights at the new Trent Port Marina, which by all accounts is one of the finest marinas anywhere. We are really looking forward to exploring Trenton!