Day 281 Leaving Montreal

The very clean and clear fresh water of the St Lawrence Seaway.






Lock 4, Upper Beauharnois on the St Lawrence Seaway





Our Anchorage tonight at Baie Saint Francois.







How do you like this for a bike path? The wide path follows the river a long distance and then narrows down to a normal bike path.




Several streets are closed off to vehicle traffic





This is the area everyone gathers to listen to different music view sidwalk musicians and entertainers as well as this is restaurant row. Pretty cool.





Fireworks every Saturday night and the marina fills up to watch them.




We missed our Grandson Connor’s high school graduation party. I hope everything went well for you Connor.

I didn’t mention the population of Montreal is over 1,600,000. During our stay, there were there 30,000 Rotarians Conventioneers in Montreal. No wonder the “City Tour” I tried to get on was sold out. You can see from the pictures this city is a gathering place.

In the afternoon, Tom and I took different bike paths and although the rain wasn’t in the forecast, we had a torrential downpour. Tom had made it back to the boat and was nice and dry but I got caught and I was dripping wet. Some people waited it out for over an hour.

Every Saturday night Montreal provides a spectacular display of fireworks over the St Lawrence River. The downtown marina is booked full every week-end for fine Montreal dinning, a great social and cap the night with a great display of fireworks. We were able to view the entire 40 minutes of the fireworks show while sitting on our flybridge. Montreal has to be one of the most enjoyable cities on our journey. A few days here are not adequate for a true sense of the city. The dining opportunities are endless, the architecture is stunning, the ethnic communities are interesting and you could people watch forever. We did limit ourselves to one sampling of ice cream and selected an excellent store called Moozoo. Actually we had frozen yogurt and was very pleased with our selection.

We departed Montreal this morning, traveling southwest on the St Lawrence River but we are going against the current. It’s not slowing us down as much as I anticipated. The St Lawrence River is a remarkably clear, clean, fresh water river and no tide to deal with. A beautiful day as we cruised to our evening destination, an anchorage at MM 151 on the St Lawrence River adjacent to the city of Baie St Francois, Canada. Nice homes along the shoreline here at our anchorage in this little rural Canadian Community. Our goal is to be aggressive for the next few days getting to the head of the St Lawrence River and ultimately to the Trent-Severn Canal.