Sunday, August 5, 2018

Richelieu River to Contrecoeur

Emptying the sump under engine 2 1/2 bottles 
Oil ok 

10h45 Departure 

12h45 Lock St-Ours, the easiest because it attaches to a floating dock. We are 5 boats and it is comfortable. 

Shortly after our exit from the locks, an osprey passes near us holding a fish firmly in his claws.

On the Richelieu, all the power boats drive recklessly like Sunday drivers. There are the rodeos on the slightest wave, and then there are also the ones who are a bit bigger and of course those towing children on tubes in their wake. 

But the bigger, those nasty pooches, they move in wolf packs and pass near Bellum, completely lacking respect and caring little waves that make. 
















7:00 pm Contrecoeur, from an island in front of the Church. 

We did not bathe nor did anyone else. We are 5 boats in the inlet and we do not see anyone swimming. The water is an opaque green-gray disgusting with heaps of seaweed floating around the boat. 

No see thems invaded the boat.  Tiny bugs that you cannot see and that could easily get through the mosquito netting.  DDT did not help.  Daniele googled and we think they might have been duck fleas.  There were some ducks nearby.  It was an itchy night. I am itchy just writing about it.








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