{"id":779,"date":"2010-08-08T04:13:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T10:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=779"},"modified":"2016-12-10T18:24:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T00:24:03","slug":"boats-on-the-rideau-locks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2010\/08\/08\/boats-on-the-rideau-locks\/","title":{"rendered":"Boats on the Rideau Locks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are locks at the end of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rideau_Canal\">Rideau Canal<\/a>: a series of eight gates the step the water down from the level of Parliament Hill to the Ottawa River.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-2pHkgTV\/0\/X3\/locks-X3.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-2pHkgTV\/0\/M\/locks-M.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of the Ottawa River locks on the Rideau Canal.\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;ve got a boat, they&#8217;ll crank open the gates for you, and you can go down in the morning and climb back up in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-Xt5CLnf\/0\/X3\/locks_boats_c-X3.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-Xt5CLnf\/0\/M\/locks_boats_c-M.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of boats coming up the Rideau Canal locks from the Ottawa River.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-6jn6Sr5\/0\/X3\/locks_boats_a-X3.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-6jn6Sr5\/0\/M\/locks_boats_a-M.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of boats coming up the Rideau Canal locks from the Ottawa River.\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the thing of it. It takes two hours to traverse those eight locks: two hours each way. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-RbWNpWk\/0\/X3\/locks_boats_b-X3.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-RbWNpWk\/0\/S\/locks_boats_b-S.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of boats coming up the Rideau Canal locks from the Ottawa River.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-xDXfpQ6\/0\/X3\/locks_boats_e-X3.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-xDXfpQ6\/0\/S\/locks_boats_e-S.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of boats coming up the Rideau Canal locks from the Ottawa River.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-G6MsLhk\/0\/X3\/locks_boats_f-X3.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-G6MsLhk\/0\/S\/locks_boats_f-S.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of boats coming up the Rideau Canal locks from the Ottawa River.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-DhBR5ch\/0\/X3\/locks_boats_g-X3.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-DhBR5ch\/0\/S\/locks_boats_g-S.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of boats coming up the Rideau Canal locks from the Ottawa River.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-knS2PcC\/0\/X3\/locks_boats_h-X3.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-knS2PcC\/0\/S\/locks_boats_h-S.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of boats coming up the Rideau Canal locks from the Ottawa River.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-sCFDh2S\/0\/X3\/locks_boats_i-X3.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px grey solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2010\/08\/i-sCFDh2S\/0\/S\/locks_boats_i-S.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A photo of boats coming up the Rideau Canal locks from the Ottawa River.\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s four hours getting there and back, and that doesn&#8217;t even include time on the river. So you <em>really<\/em> need to have time on your hands for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve got a boat, they&#8217;ll crank open the gates for you, and you can go down in the morning and climb back up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4492,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/4492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}