Nick Wolochatiuk – Dances With Phrases
That is half one in all a ‘Cole’s Notes’ journey how-to. It bears little resemblance to any web collection. The journey type of cruise guru Garry Bembridge, or nomad Rick Steves aren’t my bag both. Steve Wallis’s YouTube spots on stealth tenting are the closest you could find to my type of journey.
Coming your approach are two weeks of data, opinion and experiences a couple of distinctive approach of inexpensive and adventurous journey. Week one is the geography course you most likely slept by means of. Week two is a river cruise ‘how you can’.
Climate briefing: the prevailing wind on the St. Lawrence is from the SW. For the reason that river flows in a northeasterly route, meaning the cruise tends to have a favouring tailwind. “Whoopee!”
The present on the St. Lawrence varies, however all the time heading in a NE route. Waft! “Whoopee!” It may be as robust as 8 kph in some elements of the Thousand Islands, particularly close to Ivy Lea. “Whoopee!” In wider elements of the St. Lawrence, (Lakes St. Lawrence and St. Francis), there’s much less present.
Highways run parallel and near the river on the Canadian and American shores. Ontario’s #2 goes from Kingston, by means of Gananoque, Brockville, Prescott, Cardinal, Iroquois, Morrisburg, Ingleside, Cornwall to Bainsville.
New York’s 37 takes you from Cape Vincent, to Clayton, Alexandria Bay, Ogdensburg, Massena to Akwesasne on the New York facet.
The lock at Iroquois may be bypassed by a gate that’s left open within the adjoining dam. “Whoopee!” Nevertheless, the Moses-Saunders Worldwide Energy dam at Cornwall and the American Eisenhower and Snell locks close to Massena bar passage to canoes, necessitating a portage. “Aw, shucks!”
It’s clear paddling for canoes under Cornwall, going previous Glen Walter, Summerstown and South Lancaster. After Valleyfield you encounter one other barrier, the locks at Beauharnois.
Nearly the entire above-mentioned communities can be utilized as boating put-in and take-out locations, and supply alternatives for consuming and provisioning. “Whoopee!” Gananoque, Brockville and Morrisburg are amongst my favourites.
Time for a short geology lesson. The river goes from flat rock to contorted, then again to flat: Kingston is in a layered sedimentary flat rock space. The Thousand Islands space, together with Ivy Lea, Gananoque and Rockport, are within the historical granite bedrock of the Precambrian Protect’s Frontenac Axis. The river is in flat-rock territory once more from Cardinal and downstream.
Class dismissed! Subsequent week we’ll be paddling.
