We picked up anchor mid-morning to follow the Trent-Severn Waterway further upstream. The anchor was firmly held in clay and it took us a bit of pulling and cleaning of the anchor before we left. We were pretty much alone for the first several locks up to Campbellford and that made the process easy.

We passed Percy Reach Lock 8 (up 20 feet), Meyers Lock 9 (up 16 feet), Haig's Reach Lock 10 (up 24 feet) and then Raney Falls Locks 11 & 12 (up total of 48 feet) before arriving in Campbellford.

Campbellford is a nice town with very nice and extensive public dockage (both power and water!). We tied up and went to find lunch - as it began to pour rain and thunder. Luckily we found a nice cafe and ate while it rained and stormed outside.

Salty tied up in Campbellford; Campbellford waterfront; Dooher's Bakery - reportedly has some of the better Canadian butter tarts.

After the rain had stopped, we returned to Salty and set off for Campbellford Lock 13 (up 23 feet). As we arrived at lucky Lock 13, thunder and lightening and rain began again (!), they closed the lock doors and we waited nearly an hour for the lock to begin operation again. We learned that whenever it storms, the locks frequently lose power and they shut down until the storm is over.

We then passed through Crowe Bay Lock 14 (up 25 feet), Healy Falls Locks 15, 16 and 17 (up 76 feet).

We then had to stay on the lower lock wall at Hastings Lock 18 as we had missed the last lockage. We were trying to get to the Hastings Village Marina on the other side of the lock, but made do with the free lock wall.

We had committed to taking our time to see the countryside and the enjoy the trip, but now found ourselves having gone through 10 locks over an 8 hour travel day and gone through 37 miles of waterway. We resolved to slow down a bit.