After our experience at Tillsonberg Airport we returned home just in time to see the earliest boats sailing into Long Point Bay on the first leg of the Interclub Race, Erie to Port Dover.
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| The next day, Sunday, we watched them, from the Edge, getting ready to start the Long Point Bay race. |
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| They headed up towards Turkey Point, some with spinnakers flying. |
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| While watching I was entertained by a very vocal Song Sparrow and |
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| a tug, fishing unusually close |
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| to the shore. |
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| Rick and I took Spellbound out to try and see the fleets but the wind dropped so they ended the race at Nanticoke buoy. |
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| All we managed to see were the first couple of boats (Sledge Hammer and Muse) motoring back to party at the yacht club. |
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| Rick and I had planned to head to the club later for a drink and to listen to the band but I twisted my knee walking off the dock and just stayed at home and iced it. Sometimes the Interclub is a time of activity, photos and social activities - not this year, a bit of a dud. On Monday I again watched for the race to Port Colborne to start but, no wind, so they started motoring eastward and would start further up the lake. |
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| A couple of days later and it was Canada Day. Very hot, humid and my knee still wasn't happy so I didn't go to watch the boat parade but settled down, on a chair, in the shade, to watch the dog show. |
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| A very informal event - each dog was bought into the ring, |
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| to do a circuit, at a run, |
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| a strut |
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| or a waddle. |
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| One was carried. |
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| Handlers of all ages. Each one stopped at the judge to be stroked and made a fuss of and some performed their tricks there too. |
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| I'm not 100% sure but it looked as if every entrant won a ribbon in one of the categories which ranged from "best groomed", through "longest ears", "best puppy", "best tricks", to "best mixed breed" and "best purebred". |
Prior to the boat parade there had been a soap box derby, later in the afternoon a parade through town. Then live music in the evening at Lions Park followed by fireworks. Port Dover knows how to celebrate Canada Day!
