Gloucester Pool to Midland Harbour Town Dock, Midland, Ontario, Canada

 We left the anchorage at Gloucester Pool  through the Narrows to Mile 240.4 Lock 45 Port Severn. We pulled up to the blue line dock with help from the sailboat couple. This is smallest lock so we had to wait for the third lock through to let other large boats waiting to go through first. As we left Port Severn there was a tricky turn with current through Highway 400 Bridge followed in a couple of miles with the narrow twisting Potato Channel that you had to announce a security call as you passed through and we did meet a boat waiting for us to come through. Finally we were in the open waters  of Midland Bay headed to Midland Harbour Town Dock. We tied up against the wall which had picnic tables under a pavilion and the office with private boaters showers and a laundry. We headed into town for lunch at Test Batches Brewery. We had their barbeque special and two craft brews. We came back to marina and then followed the bike path to Bay Port Yachting Services Marine where we picked up the necessary nautical charts for Lake Huron.

Mink at lock 45 in Port Severn

Midland Bay

Great facilities at Midland Harbour

On Thursday morning we walked to Mom's Restaurant for a great breakfast before continuing on with our shopping cart to Home Depot, Walmart and the Beer Store. It was a hot walk but we got everything on our shopping list. We came back to the boat and scrubbed the decks and took off the filthy fender covers and washed them along with two other loads of laundry. A black squall line moved in and quickly had waves, wind and rain bashing us for a short time with thunder and lightening. The rain finally let up after dinner and we finished the last load of laundry. We stayed the two days in the marina anticipating thunderstorms but nothing like what we got.