Wed. June 18      0800/1300

39 miles            Hastings to Peterborough (lock 20)

Today our travels took us through Rice Lake which is the second largest lake on the Trent Severn Waterway. This lake is 20 miles long, 3 miles wide, and used to be the site of extensive wild rice that the native population harvested. Wild rice, which needs fluctuating water levels to survive, died out once the Trent Severn Waterway was completed. We left the bottom end of the lake and turned into the Otonabee River to continue along the waterway. The first 20 miles of this river is very secluded with marshy grasslands and over hanging trees.

Rice Lake

  

 The lake is full of little islands. Most of them have houses on them.

 

 Ontonabee River

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Osprey

 

 Blue Heron

 

Our only lock for the day was lock 19 which is over 160 years old and is the oldest lock on the waterway. It is the last remaining limestone lock from the original construction. A short distance later we stopped at lock 20 for the night, which sits on the edge of Little Lake (appropriately named) in Peterborough.

 

 Lock 19

 

 

 Little Lake, Peterborough. Water fountain in the middle of the lake.

 

 Lock 20