Thursday, July 12, 2007
Canada showed up just about when the GPS had been telling us it would and then we followed buoys along the north shore for about 7 NM to Kingston harbor. After finding the correct entrance to Confederation Basin (I initially entered through the older back way) we took a slip with plans to stay until Thursday. The marina is operated by the City of Kingston and is right in front of a nice park and City Hall. After signing in and clearing Canadian Customs (a telephone call) to get our clearance number we hoisted the Canadian courtesy flag, and then walked to a bank to exchange some greenbacks for “loonies”, I think they are called. The small bit of the city we have seen so far, has a Euro-feel to it with a café or side walk bar on most corners and the people we have encountered could not have been friendlier. Tomorrow we plan to do some site seeing.