We went out with Ian to visit 3 places of interest in the morning. It was a bit too hot for Gillian so she stayed behind and kindly did our washing.

We started with a walk up to the highest point in the town, the lookout at the top of Mount Pelion. It is called ‘Mount’, but it is less than 100m high, however, the area is flat so the views were still great and you get a 360-degree panorama. The "mountain" is technically a drumlin, a low oval mound or small hill consisting of compacted boulder clay moulded by past glacial action.In the 1800's, a cannon was hoisted to the top of the mountain by a team of horses, but has not been fired since 1898. The site was designated a Heritage Property in 1989, and a new lookout tower was built. You can see as far away as Murray Hills, Belleville and into Prince Edward County. We visited Belleville and Prince Edward County while we stayed here.

Our next stop was to visit the Bleasdell Boulder. Most such rocks were deposited during the last ice age, which some scientists claim covered Ontario as much as a kilometre deep. As the ice sheets cracked and began to melt about 20,000 years ago, the torrents of meltwater spewed sand, gravel and rocks into the gaping crevasses. In Central Ontario, the ice sheet melted in a long line, and the glacial debris formed a ridge of rocky and sandy hills. A boulder line that stretches from Orangeville in the west to Trenton in the east was dubbed the Oak Ridges Moraine by geologists.

It is at Trenton that the ice disgorged its biggest boulder, one the size of a house. Geologists call it the Glen Miller ‘erratic’, their name for boulders that the ice sheets carried far from their parent bedrock. This is the largest known erratic in Ontario, and one of the largest in North America. It is composed of Grenville marble, and patches of course quartz, actinolite, and tremolite. The average height of the boulder is about 6.3 metres.

On our way back we stopped to look at the lock area. The Trent-Severn waterway is 386 km of interconnected lakes and rivers through central Ontario. We were looking at Lock 1 but there are actually 44 in total. It was sadly very quiet while we were there so we did not see it in action. Ian told us about the lock at Peterborough, which is much higher and a dual lock i.e. one side rises while the other falls to counterbalance it.For most of its life, the lock's dual lifts were the highest hydraulic boat lifts in the world, raising boats 20m This was a considerable accomplishment in the first years of the 20th century, when conventional locks usually only had a 2.1m rise.

We had lunch back at the house and then headed out for the afternoon. We were going to Belleville and started by having a short stroll near the water. Then we went to Corby Park where we found a cache. The next stop was outside a lovely old home with a history. It is said that people see a woman in the front window with a duster in hand so it is assumed it is a maid.

It was very hot, so we decided that was enough time outside and we headed to the mall. Here we had cold drinks and John got a cheap Canadian SIM card for his phone. I had just put Global Roaming back on mine the previous day, but he had not had a good run with his Global roaming and so opted for a Canadian card. It was a good price for a month, even though he will have it for only a week or so.

We headed back via a country store where we found a cache. It had a nice mix of food and country items but nothing we felt was sensible to carry with us. Back home we tested the turnovers from the store, then John had a rest while we chatted and internetted.

We had booked for dinner at a local restaurant (Tomasso's) that Gillian and Ian really enjoy. It had a mainly Italian theme. We were lucky enough to get a window table, as the restaurant does not usually let people reserve them, but Gillian had said she was bringing visitors. It was cloudy, and our hosts were really hoping it would rain, just not when we were outside!. We had had about 5 minutes of rain before we went out but that was all. The food was delicious, the service good and the company even better so it was a lovely evening.