Fri Sep 18, 2020 @ 04:47

A black duck (American Black Duck) takes flight as we paddle through the canal leading up to Poonamalie lock.

When @toesalad first proposed this route to me months ago I was not interested. The Rideau Canal sounds like this looks - a man made structure.

Paddling through that for a week didn’t sound fun.

I didn’t realize that the Rideau Canal is bodies of water linked together with short sections of canals and made navigable through elevation changes with locks and dams.

Most of the “canal” looks nothing like this. This is one of the most canal-like looking sections of the entire journey so far.