Kingston Mills

On the way home, on Monday June 9th, we decided to check out some of the locks we had never been to. Well, actually, we
accidentally found ourselves driving by the first one last year, but didn’t have time to stop. It looked pretty interesting though, so we wanted to go there this year, to check it out properly.

Kingston Mills must be very busy in the summer as there are long docks at the upper and lower ends of the locks, as well as a basin below the top lock. The drop is significant at this site and I was surprised to see how shallow the water would be, going from one stage to the other. You sure wouldn’t want a very deep hull if you were planning to pass this way.

To find the cache we had to correctly answer a series of questions about the various fish found in the Rideau. There is a sign that holds all the answers, if you read it correctly. Once you have those answers, you have to plug all the correct numbers into the right places to build the waypoint where the cache is. We apparently did a great job as we found the cache without further problems. I do think it was good that there were two of us working on this puzzle though, as we corrected each others mistakes as we worked through it.

We took the time to explore the locks, from top to bottom but didn’t have time to do a second cache in the area which may have had us doing some rock climbing . I’m all for trying that though. Maybe next year.

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