Sunday, September 21, 2008

Day 79 & 80 - Kingston to Queenston (Niagara Peninsula), Ontario

Day 79 – Shannonville & Kingston, Ontario
September 15, 2008

We woke up to a quiet morning with clouds but no wind or rain. Today we were going to visit a card-making supply store in Shannonville and visit Prince Edward County, Ontario. When we first got to this store we did not expect much as it did not look bigger than a long 3 car garage but once we were inside we were pleasantly surprised by all that was displayed. 2 hours later we finally left the store having maxed out our credit cards and planned to come back the next morning to pick up our order as we did not want to wait for the ladies to get our merchandize tallied up since they had to type in every item number manually.

By this time the weather started to get better and we even got to see the sun off and on. We drove past Belleville to Picton, took a side road to Lake on the Mountain and from there went to Glenora to take another ferry across to mainland Ontario. This ferry was a decent size and we had no problems getting on. It also sailed every 15 minutes and because it is part of the road system here there was no charge for it either. Actually, we wound up taking the same ferry 3 times. Part of the reason for us taking this route was to go to Traverse Point, but we crossed over on the ferry before we realized that this route required us to be back on the other side, so back we went to make that trip and then later to take the ferry across one final time.

From there we drove along Lake Ontario on the Bath Road back to Kingston and back to our campsite. We had supper and Leo worked on his pictures while I got to enjoy sitting outside for a while reading a book. Luckily the temperatures were much cooler this evening and we could go to sleep on time to catch up again on the sleep we seem to be missing a lot of.

Pictures for today can be found here.


Day 80, Drive from Kingston to Queenston (Niagara Peninsula), OntarioSeptember 16, 2008 - Happy Birthday Alex!
Today we planned on taking express Highway 401 through Toronto on our way to the Welland Canal where Leo wants to take some time-lapse film of the big ships going through the locks. But first we had a quick stop at the card-making supply store to pick up yesterday’s purchases.

The drive through greater Toronto and Hamilton areas went really smoothly thanks to Lucille our competent GPS navigator who steered us quite precisely along the 12 lane road which the 401 is, and we arrived at our campground around 2 pm. Unfortunately, they did not have internet and we wanted to stay at a campground with internet this time so that we could upload some of our blogs of the last week. On we went then to Queenston where a second campground was supposed to have Wifi internet access even though it could not be achieved at our campsite but instead required us to go close to the office building to get it. The latter meant sitting outside at a picnic table or in your car. This was not the best but it at least it would give us the chance to upload some blogs again.

Leo went to explore the Welland Canal locks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welland_Canal) for tomorrow and I stayed behind to perform some of our blogging work.

There are not too many pictures for today but they can be found here.

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