An End of Summer Field Trip

Much of my summer has been spent in the company of my grandson. We celebrated the end of summer with a field trip.  At his request, we went to see different Rideau Canal locks than the ones we visited last year.

This is Hogs Back. From here to the Ottawa River, the Rideau River is separate from the Rideau Canal, with the canal moving calmly toward Downtown Ottawa, and the Rideau River rushing over rocks and rapids to meet the Ottawa River at the Rideau Falls. You can read more about it here.

https://www.rideau-info.com/canal/history/rideau-route/hogsback.html

Here we can see wild rushing rapids, as they pass over rocks that were compared to giant hogs in the river. The rapids have been transformed, by a dam, into beautiful waterfalls.

In the midst of this, we saw ducks sunning themselves on the rocks.

Find the ducks!

After climbing to the top of the dam, and walking across, we climbed down to the river and calmer water. It was a gorgeous day. 

We did watch the boats lock through, in the channel to the west of the dam, but that wasn't as exciting as the rocks and the falls.

Some knitting was done. My August socks have been finished.

Because this is Canada, and we know that summer will soon give way to cooler days, I started knitting mittens.

I was gifted this gorgeous yarn and a bunch more like it, so I expect I can make a lot of mittens.