Our Adventures: Healey Falls, Ontario

Friday, July 17, 2015

Healey Falls, Ontario

July 15, 2015

This morning we welcomed aboard Dan and Angie, Seahorse, along with Dave and Penny, Penny Pinchin’, to discuss float plans over coffee as the weather had changed with a strong north wind. We ended up discussing past travel experiences and decided all of us had no plans! We walked to the Farmers Market and bought a basil plant, fresh garlic, and greens. We revisited Dooher’s Bakery to buy more strawberry tarts along with lemon tarts and cheese biscuits. Charlie brought back takeout of Poutine…..YUMMM… (Thank you Dan and Angie for hooking us up with this great Canadian meal) Not knowing if we’d ever eat it again, we had to have more! We then toured Ranney Falls Suspension Bridge and Step Locks 11/12, which we had traveled through yesterday, to view it from land via bicycles. Cycling several miles made me feel like I burned off some of those tarts!

The north winds died down a bit so we decided to throw the lines and move on early afternoon. We traveled 5 NM locking up 178.4’. In 3 days we have locked up 379.2’. Our second Step Lock was Lock 16/17 which raised us 54’ total. We had only one small boat with us for two locks then alone for the step locks. Easy breezy locks today! We are docked at the top of Lock 16/17 for the night.

After docking, we walked to the Step Locks to view from land. Charlie was able to cast a few lines to fish along the canal. He caught a zebra mussel! He then grilled some great lamb chops along with a fresh side of local tomatoes, fresh garlic and basil, cheese curds from the local cheese factory, with a balsamic and olive oil dressing. Dessert was lemon tarts….(Sugar overload) Perfect weather, perfect temps, perfect scenery, perfect meal, perfect day, and perfect company…Life is good!