Today had 2 great highlights. The first was a visit to the Peterborough lift lock. This lock was built in 1904 and remains the highest lift lock in the world at 65'. We rode our bikes to it along with Ron & Jan. I was told to ask for Ed the lockmaster and tell him that we were loopers and sent up by our harbor host. Ed was a wonderful guy and gave us a great tour of the control tower where they operate all the valves for the hydraulic pumps that operate the lock. The two chambers are like huge bathtubs that stay filled with water. Each is 140' long and 33' wide. The water level in the upper chamber is raised about a foot and that extra weight lowers it and raises the lower one. Ann & Jan even got to press buttons to operate the guard doors and start the process. We enjoyed Ed and the tour immensely.
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| A view from the ground. The lower chamber is to the left of the towers and the upper is between them. |
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| Looking down on the lower chamber. |
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| Upper chamber |
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| In the control house! |
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| Boats approaching. |
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| This is a tour boat that goes out of Peterborough and travels up the lock, then turns around and back down. |
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| The gate at the end of the lock. |
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| Lower chamber almost to the top.
The second high light was a doctail party organized by our Peterborough harbor hosts, Don Bennett and Freya Peterson. There are at least 16 looper boats here. Freya makes up welcome bags for each boat that includes information on the area and each has a jar of her home made jams. We met a bunch of new people. Great fun.
       Us with Don & Freya. 
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