Tues,Wed July 18-19, St. Anne to Atocas Anchorage to Petrie Island

Tues,Wed July 18-19, St. Anne to Atocas Anchorage to Petrie Island    
We start our day going thru the St. Anne lock smoothly and comfortable.  We travel on smooth water in the warm weather.  The Carillon lock was the next lock and had a guillotine type door.  It is large with a 65 foot lift.  After traveling thru with 5 other boats, Tom cools off with a bucket shower, then we continue on.  The anchorage is a nice bay, quiet and scenic and we share it with 4 other boats anchored for the night.

Wednesday is a comfortable traveling day.  We want to get close to Ottawa to plan our lockage through the Steps of 8.  We decide to anchor in an unexplored area but the charts say plenty of space and water.  It works out well, expect for the road close from the Interstate near by which makes for some noise, but we enjoy people honking and tooting at us.  The sunset is beautiful and we enjoy a peaceful evening. 

Smooth cruising... some days we get lucky. actually every
day doing this is lucky

The Carillon Lock which is a guillotine style lock. The door
raising straight up and down to close the lock

At the top of Carillon Lock with 4 cruisers in front of us

Sometime you just have to cool off

Approaching the evenings anchorage

Sunset after a great day of cruisng

On the way we stopped for lunch at the world's largest log
cabin structure, Le Chateau Montebello

This picture doesn't do the size of the chateau justice

This the lobby with the 5 sided fireplace behind Colletta

They had this robotic lawn mower cruising around the grounds.
When it got low on charge it would head back to its charger station
to charge up all by its self. Way cool

Jean Pepindeaux chateau next to Monte Bello

Monte Bello is a classy place. If you don't want to drive or come by boat
you can fly in by float plane