Lock 13 - Campellford; Lift: 23 Feet Tied up on the port side in this lock. The lock-master's job looks easy, but he walks about 11 miles a day just opening and closing the gates. |
Lock 14 - Crowe Bay; Lift: 26 Feet Campbellford Hydro Generating Station is on the right |
Friendly Canadian "cousins" and hydro operators came to have a look |
Houses along the river are referred to as cottages |
Lock 15 - Healey Falls; Lift: 22 Feet Tie up was on port side again - lock gymnastics with climbing back and forth over the masts today |
Top of Lock 15 |
Flight Lock 16 and 17 was just around the corner Lift: 27 feet divided in two sections for a total of 54 feet |
It was very windy with a lot of turbulence in the lock |
At the top of a 76 foot rise in a 1/2 mile |
Seymour Lake with lots of islands - Beautiful |
Trent River |
Narrow channel is marked by "cribs" used by loggers of long ago to control the logs on the way downstream |
Waiting in Hasting, Ontario for the last lock of the day |
Lock 18 - Hastings; Lift: 9 feet |
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