Smith Falls to Burritts Rapids, Ontario, Canada

 We got up early to walk to breakfast at the nearest restaurant, Perfect Thyming Restaurant. When we got back to the boat at 8:30 there were already three boats filling the blue line dock to lock through. The lockmaster said it would be 9:30 and he would include us and the small boat behind us. So we took a quick walk through town to the Railroad Museum and were back and ready to go through combined lock 29A. We went through Locks 27 and 26,  Slys  Locks near the Heritage House Museum we had visited.  We continued through Lock 25 at Edmunds and Lock 24 at Kilmarnock.  The other  boats left us to go to the Pond basin at Merrickville for the night and we continued on to Lock 23 at Merrickville. We continued on through Lock 20 at Clowes, Lock 19 at Upper Nicholson, Lock 18 at Lower Nicholson and finally went through Lock 17 at Burritts Rapids where we went around the side of the lock to a long dock with three other boats. We took an evening walk down to the swing bridge on the Tip to Tip Trail and got up the next morning and walked the entire trail ending up at the dam.

Geese jumping into the lock to get away from us on the dock

Marker for the Rideau Trail and it does snow here

At the end of the Tip to Tip Trail

The iconic Parks Canada red chairs

Beautiful path through the woods

Burritts Rapids

Old equipment at the dam

Horses in pasture across the canal

The library circa 1920

Finally sampling our Thousand Island Gin

The swing bridge in down position as viewed from trail

Old church turned into house

The Visitor center bathrooms at lock

The lock tender turning round and round to open swing bridge

The invisible dams with buoys to indicate danger