July 10 - Oh Canada!

We finally made it to Canada.  This morning at 6:00 we left our good friends Don and Connie Rutsch, who we had spent the last three weeks with, and pointed our boat out onto Lake Ontario and 30 miles of open water.  We enjoyed Don and Connie's company on the New York State in-land water ways, and look forward to doing it again with them.

The trip across Lake Ontario started out a little bumpy with 1 to 3 foot waves, but it wasn't bad at all and within four hours we were at the other side.  When we reached the north shore of Ontario the islands settled the water down and it was a really nice cruise in the North Channel and the Adolphus Reach.  We planned to finish in Picton, Ontario and call in to Canadian customs.

After giving all our information to customs on the phone, the normal procedure is that they give you a number to tape in your window, and then you're done.  Instead they said "stay right there, we'll be right out".  All kinds of thoughts ran through my head.  I'm imagining the great "Two Buck Chuck" bust when the find Patti's stash.  Then I remembered our good friend, Charlie Burke, giving us advice (which I won't mention here) on how to get through customs.  After waiting a hour and a half for a customs officer to arrive, and after he explored the boat a little, we were cleared to set foot in Canada.  He said it was a random check.

It's a beautiful day in Canada.  About (or as they say up here: aboot) 70 degrees and sunny.  We wore sweaters, blue jeans and coats last night and this morning.  I don't miss the toasty Virginia summer.
Tomorrow - Trenton, Ontario.