July 25… Floyd went to bed way too early last night…so at 5AM he is up and fiddling with the dinghy…repairs seem to have slowed the leaking significantly. So he hoisted it back in place and announced that we would be locking through with the group at 9. Special breakfast today consisted of Canadian peameal, eggs and toast. This was our first experience of slicing and cooking peameal…tasted like ham…but don’t try to cook the eggs in the drippings. Way too watery for that!! Even with the misstep we were ready to go with the crowd. MAZEL TUG, PENNY PINCHIN’, MR BOUY, and TUMBLEWEED…three step locks and out onto Lake Simcoe…we stopped for gas and a pump out and still managed to beat the rain into Port of Orillia Marina.  And then it poured…just long enough to allow us to check supplies and make our grocery list. 

Once the rain cleared, we were off to the Metro store. While there we talked to NEARLY PERFECT…probably see them tomorrow on the waterway. We just barely beat the second rain storm back to the boat. Big fishing tournament going on today…so lots of little boats gathered. We were a little worried about facing that crowd when we leave in the morning, but we discovered that it is over today. We spent some time downloading charts for Floyd’s I pad…somewhere in the last couple of days we ran off the chart. Interesting view!!! 

We were also surprised to find another 36’ Carver named TUMBELWEED at the marina…makes for just a little confusion when docking. We found the boat…but so far no one is there…

We skipped docktails with the other loopers tonight…headed into town hoping to find a store that might have a rug we could use to protect the dinghy floor…no luck. But we did find a good outdoor restaurant for burgers and wings.

We plan to head out in the morning…60 miles and four more locks then we finish the Trent–Severn …since it’s still the weekend we probably won’t push too hard tomorrow. We are ahead of schedule!!! Even more amazing!!!!