Dreary Travel Day
St. Ours Lock Wall
Today was a cloudy, cool and dreary day, but luckily we
didn’t get any rain until later in the evening. Our travels took us further
down the St. Lawrence River to Sorel…this is as far north as our journey will
take us this year. From Sorel we turned south and are now on the Richelieu
River. It is 78 miles from Sorel to the US Border. The majority of our trip
today was on the St. Lawrence, through a very industrial area with little of
anything to see, so the weather didn’t hamper our trip. In fact it was a great
day to travel since we would have been stuck on the boat if we had stayed in
port. The only traffic on the river today was a few tankers. Once we were on
the Richelieu River and past Sorel, the factories and refineries were replaced
with homes and farmland. This area of Canada is nowhere near as pretty as the area
around the Rideau Canal, but I was impressed with how pretty the water was in
the St. Lawrence River, a beautiful shade of dark turquoise and very clear.
Tonight we are docked in a very rural area…no Internet
connection, no town and no TV. We spent the evening cooking dinner and playing
cards…well trying to play cards, we had a hard time remembering the rules to
most of the games we could think of and we had no Internet to look the rules
up. Of course if we had the Internet we wouldn’t have been playing cards! It’s
raining again tonight…I hope it ends before morning. It won’t be fun doing
locks in the rain.
Our view this morning from the boat
Our view this morning from the boat
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