Peterborough

Along with Gimme Time (AJ and Amy), we took off for Peterborough bright and early-8am.  The rainy, windy weather was moving in around 3pm and tomorrow it is supposed to be worse and cold—60 degrees or as they say here 15c.  We blew out the turbo’s as we crossed Rice Lake for about 20 miles then up skinny waters for another 20 miles and reached Peterborough before the weather moved in.  The Peterborough Marina is awesome –the kids that run it are eager to help and with the wind blowing like it was today it was all hands on deck.  Freya Petersen and Don Bennett are  Harbor Hosts for the AGLCA (Loopers) they gave us wonderful welcome bags with goodies and information about the town.  Sunday evening  we will meet up with the whole group docked here for docktails 5 and then on Canada Day (Wed.) all are invited for dinner and cocktails that they are providing—we will most probably be gone and will be sorry to miss but these Harbor Hosts are great.  The marina’s park has free concerts every Saturday and Wednesday night. Tonight Randy Bachman (of Bachman Turner Overdrive and The Guess Who—music of my youth) is performing in concert free tonight.  As I write, it is raining hard—wasn’t sure the concert would come off--

Fly Fishing from a paddleboard on the Otonabee River

Camps along the Lake

 

Harbor Host Freya with Fitz and AJ and Amy

 

 

Rainy concert out our port

 

Storm clouds moving in--we were glad to be in the Marina

but it did and it was great!  Being the wusses we are we sat in the boat and listened—Let it Ride, No Sugar Tonight, American Woman and a weird version of Undun .  We had the best seat in the house.