Labour Day weekend is here already and with it our plans to spend the weekend on the St. Lawrence river. So, we drove from Ottawa to Grenville – just over an hour. We passed a number of small towns and lakes on the way. Every once in a while we’d see fields of hay or grain that have already been harvested.
Our campground is on the shore of the St. Lawrence and which gives a nice view of passing lake freighters, a lot of pleasure boats and the USA on the opposite shore. The border crossing and bridge that spans the river are just down the road.
Folks are friendly as we settled in we heard from the seasonal campers that they celebrate Halloween here this weekend before the kids go back to school.
The highlight of the weekend was the tall ship festival in Brockville. Six of them were moored around the harbour and we enjoyed deck tours on three of them, including the Bluenose II. We walked back to the car through Canada’s first railway tunnel, which has become part of the city’s trail system.
Cross-Canada with the MAHARG's 