Overnight at Poonamalie

44°53′34″ N 76°3′21″ W

We were up at 8:00am & off to the Roosteraunt for breakfast. This place is becoming a bit habit-forming!

After breakfast we walked over to the grocery store & stocked up with provisions for our trip. This is the best place to get groceries between here & Kingston so we bought a lot of stuff. It’s a good thing that there were 3 of us to carry everything back to the boat.

We cast off around 11:30am & headed for Poonamalie. Our timing was good because just as we were exiting the lock at Poonamalie a group of other boats were arriving from the other direction. We got the last space available mooring space with an electric hookup.

I was looking forward to an afternoon of snacks & snoozing when I got a call from Steve Flewitt, the owner of Aylings Boatyard in Merrickville. He & I had placed an ad on Kijiji to sell my dingy & outboard motor & Steve had an interested person taking a serious look at them back in Merrickville. After a bit of negotiation over the phone we arrived at an agreement on price. Way to go Steve!

I bought the dingy brand new in Florida in 2017 & had never used it.

The outboard motor was pretty new too. It was a good setup but I believed that it was going to be a bit too much for me to handle, moving the outboard back & forth from the storage rack on Santosha each time I wanted to use the dingy. Catherine & I both like kayaks so I will use the money to buy a couple of smaller used ones. They will be easy to carry on the boat, much lighter for me to handle & we can have some fun with them exploring the shallower waters along the way.

We had BBQ’d salmon & corn on the cob for supper to celebrate our first day of the trip to Kingston.

After the supper dishes were cleaned up Emily dug out the Yahtzee game. She ended up being the champion for the evening, handily beating her mother & me.

Better luck next time, eh!

Tomorrow we head to Newboro.

Cheers!