Boat Trip 2014 - July 12, 13

Yesterday, July 12, we left Beau Rivage to take a slip at the Gananoque Marina for Saturday.  We wanted to replenish our food supplies, do laundry, go to the Playhouse, get a pump-out, top up with water, and go to church today.  But today when we got up, the weather was so miserable - very high winds, much rain - that we decided to stay put for another day.

We saw a musical romantic comedy at the 1000 Islands Playhouse, called "She Loves Me".  It is based on a 1937 Hungarian play called "Perfumerie", similar to the 1997 movie, "You've Got Mail".  It was well done, and lots of fun.

I loved this cute little boathouse/cottage, which was squished in between the Playhouse and the next house.

The weather cleared, though the wind only diminished a little, late this afternoon, so we went for a nice long walk - with the camera of course!  The town is filled with these beautiful hanging baskets.

There is a lovely little park straddling the Gananoque River, on the site where there used to be a shovel factory - they made the shovels for digging the foxholes for the 2nd world war.  There were lots of sculptures in the park, including this life-sized heron, and much larger than life-sized oak leaf.

There was also a pair of beautiful swans swimming in the river.

This is a MUCH larger than life-sized heron, with a fish in it's bill.

The swans seemed to be enjoying being in the spray from the fountain - blown by the wind.

Gananoque's town hall was built in 1831/32 for the family of John MacDonald.  It stayed in the family until 1911, when it was given to the town for a town hall.

Arrrrgggg, this weekend has been Pirate Days in Gan, and we have seen pirates all over the place.  Some little pirate must have lost his hat, and I persuaded  Paul to put it on for a picture. You can see that he was thrilled, but he did it!

This is Grace United Church, where we went this morning.  We chose this one because we became acquainted with the organist on Beau Rivage this week, then met another couple this morning who came to shore to go to that church as well.  The female lead from the play we saw was the guest soloist - she sang "It's Amazing The Things That Float".  ?????

This clock tower, built in 1903, used to be a tower for drying the hoses from the nearby fire department, which is no longer there.  It was donated to the town for use as a clock tower, and rings the hours from 9 am til 9 pm every day.                                                                       




Every time I see the roof on this gorgeous Catholic Church, I am amazed!  It's made of slate, and is beautiful!

Well, it's not a bee, but close enough!

I couldn't believe the colour of these lilies!  I trespassed to take the picture!

There are a lot of big boats in this marina, and most of them have QC on them.  There are also a lot of smaller boats from Quebec here.  Apparently it's cheaper to keep them here for the summer than in Montreal.  Then you can just drive up for the weekend or whatever and take them to an island.  The Quebec construction holiday has not started yet - we may have trouble getting a spot on the islands when it does.