Rideau Canal Locks at Kingston Mills.

 A catch up post, and I'm glad for the break, only been at the scrubbing and cleaning for a morning and fed up with it already. Yesterday we made  arrangements for the fiver to to go into RV Canada on Tuesday morning.

The Kingston Mill Locks a flight of 4 locks just outside Kingston.  There are 24 lockstations on the 202km. canal controlling 47 locks, not sure wether these locks are No's 1to 4 or 44 to 47.  

The canal is a UNESCO World Heritage site and is one of the best examples in the world of a slackwater canal system.

The sluice gates opened to lower the water level in the top lock Colonel By Lake, down to the level of the basin.

This boat has now passed through the basin into the second lock.

The gates between second and third locks.

Going down in the third lock.

The gates being opened between third and forth locks.

Sailing through into the fourth lock.

Now in the fourth lock.

Sailing out and into the Cataraqui River and on past Fort Henry and the Martello towers and into Lake Ontario.  A total drop of 14.4 metres.  The Locks here use all three of the manual system of opening and closing the gates.

Nice break now back to the cleaning.