Four Winds Sesquicentennial Brigades: departing Jones Falls Locks PART 3

We were up early, 6:00 a.m., Sunday, June 25th, and watched as breakfast was made, or ordered in the hotel dining room, the tents were folded up, gear repacked into the cars and trailers that followed the trip. It was calm and the canal was like glass.

 Sunday June 25 Day 2 Jones Falls to Newboro 

 10 am Depart earlier if you haven’t got your canoes to the top of the locks yet. Locks open at 8:00 

 Distance 21 km. three sets of locks 

 Lunch stop likely at Chaffey’s Locks (we saw them there!)

 Overnight at Newboro Lock, the “top” of the Rideau 

 Outdoor presentation on Old-time Navigation Techniques, by the Surveyor General’s crew




Four Winds Sesquicentennial Ottawa Brigades PART 1 –arriving @Jones Falls
South Wind Brigades videos
South Wind Brigades PART 2 – going up @Jones Falls locks 42 => 39.
South Wind Brigade PART 3 –departing Jones Falls
South Wind Brigade PART 4 – @Chaffeys Lock
Rideau Ferry: more paddlers Kingston -Ottawa
South Wind Brigade PART 5 – @Rideau Ferry