Overnight at Port of Orillia, Slip 169
44°36’48.4236″N, 79°24’42.8868″W
What3Words: ///rowdy.strutting.expressive

Catherine writes: We had an early breakfast aboard Belisama. Valerie and I enjoyed coffee and tea in bed – just like in France – served by the men.

Coffee and Tea Served In Bed – Just Like In France

It was a little convoluted figuring out transportation but this what we did: Wally, David and Valerie walked to the car rental location to pick up rental car at 9:00am. I stayed back to organize the galley.

We all drove to Midland in the rental car – about 45 minutes away. David and Valerie picked up their car at the Bay Port Marina.

45 Minutes in a car – two days aboard a boat

We all drove to our storage locker in another part of Midland. David and Valerie very kindly took a carload of things back to London for us. We said our goodbyes there. What wonderful friends! We will really miss them! It reminded us of putting them on the train to Spain in Angouleme France after our week boating with them there!  Au revoir!

We drove back to the Bay Port Marina to pick up our car and check on our substantial bill which was still being prepared – ka-ching. I drove our car, and Wally drove the rental car back to Orillia. We met Dan’s son Steve at his house where he kindly agreed to let us park our car until we are finished cruising for the season. How we will get back to Orillia in September remains to be determined (a problem for future Wally to worry about)

We were able to meet up with Dan and Isa again for dinner at the Swiss Chalet followed by ice cream at Kawartha Dairy outlet – yummy! Funny story – Wally and Dan continued to talk about their careers and it turned out that they both had worked for the French based Veolia company at roughly the same time, but in completely different corporate divisions. Dan was in Veolia’s public transportation services division and Wally was focused on water and wastewater operations, management and business development. A small world gets smaller….

Dinner with Dan and Isa (sorry for the poor photo quality)

We said our goodbyes to Dan and Isa, such lovely people. We leave tomorrow morning for Lake Simcoe and the Trent Canal.

Cheers!