We're in Buckhorn, ON, docked on a lock wall overnight. It's a nice tie-up with a park at the lock and dam, and a teeny town across the road. We went through 10 locks and 30 miles of the Trent Severn Waterway today, which puts us at mile 120... halfway to Lake Huron.

Some of the waterway was very narrow with rock edges and trees close in on both sides...

And some of the TSW goes through a maze of beautiful lakes with hundreds of pretty luttle islands. Some of the islands have summer homes on them.

The absolute height of the day, and, for me, one of the neatest parts of the TSW is the Peterborough Liftlock. Instead of bringing boats into a deep well lock and filling it with water to lift the boats, this lock has two absolutely huge metal pans, each bigger than any lock on the TSW, that are filled with water. The lock then lifts the pan full of water, including the boats in them, up 65 ft. to the river above. It lifts the lower pan simply by filling the higher pan with more water than the lower pan and as the high pan drops, the low pan rises. It was built over 100 years ago and is still in excellent operating condition.... an engineering masterpiece!

Here we are rising inside the lower pan with 3 other boats. The grey, curved steel with the railing on top is the superstructure for our pan. The higher pan has grey steel Xs and a railing on top, seen coming down. It's like a water powered elevator, and it runs much faster than I expected.

When you get to the top, they open the other end of the pan and you just float right out into the river! I enjoy going through the locks, but Kathy gets very anxious in the locks. I think it's a combination of claustrophobia and anxiety and frustration about handling a 60,000 lb boat with big ropes in the lock. She's the primary boat-roper (line handler) and she does a fine job, but she just gets wound up tight in the locks, so it's not as much fun for her when we go through 10 locks in a day.

So here's our progress.... that red line is really almost a loop!