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| In the 'S' turn canal |
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What it looked like on port &
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We were lazy this morning and we didn’t depart Len’s Cove Marina until 9:30am. The locks were in our favor having to wait less than 15 minutes at each. We had some very narrow channels to navigate. One ‘one boat’ channel was like an ’S’ starting with a 90° turn to port. We could not see if anyone was in the channel coming at us. Backing up was not an option. Fortunately, the only boat we did encounter was a pontoon boat that could let us pass without running aground. At 10:40am we reached the ‘summit’ of the Rideau River (437 feet above sea level) at Newboro Lock #36. There was a big sign warning boaters that the buoy colors have swapped sides (it was red right returning until this point). By 2:50 we were through Chaffey’s and Davis’s Lock and the four Jones Falls locks, having dropped over 90 feet in elevation. We docked at
Shangri-La Cottages and Campground. It has two 30-amp posts along the dock, but no water. Never-the-less, we checked in and made reservations to dine at the historic (UNESCO Site and a National Geographic recommendation)
Kenney’s Hotel. The food was excellent. After dinner we walked up to the Jones Falls locks
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Hotel Kenney as seen from the
Jones Falls locks |
and dam. The dam concave construction was necessary in 1831 to flood a section of the Rideau River to minimize the excavation of the locks. An unintended consequence of the dam’s design is one person can talk in a normal voice on one end of the dam and can be heard clearly at the other end. We tried it and it works great! We went back to the boat and planned our visit and sightseeing in Kingston.
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| The Jones Falls Dam |
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An empty lock at
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