There are locks at the end of the Rideau Canal: a series of eight gates the step the water down from the level of Parliament Hill to the Ottawa River. And if you’ve got a boat, they’ll crank open the gates for you, and you can go down in the morning and climb back up […]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Caught in the Act
Sun, 8 Aug 2010, 02:44 AM (-06:00)
He was standing on the patio in the sun. He was staring into the back yard with great concentration. This struck me as odd. He was neither relaxed nor was he in his hunting-the-wiley-squirrel pose. Those are pretty much the two positions he assumes back there, and this one was neither. Something was up with the […]
Riding the Rideau Canal
Thu, 5 Aug 2010, 10:02 PM (-06:00)
Our plan was to rent a couple bikes and ride up the Rideau Canal and back and around the city a bit. We didn’t find the rental place where we expected it to be. And we didn’t find it down the block or up. And we didn’t find it on the next street. Finally, we […]
Son et Lumière at Parliament Hill
Wed, 4 Aug 2010, 10:15 PM (-06:00)
In Ottawa every night in the summer, they have a sound and light show at Parliament Hill. In the evening after the day of our train adventure, Trudy and I took the #12 bus down Montreal Road and Rideau Street into town to see it… The sky was dark and threatened rain which came and […]