Stowaway

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Last night we had an unexpected visitor. A mouse or a small rat ran by Joann and scared the day lights out of her. There was a mad scramble to catch the stowaway but it was too fast and there was too  many good hiding places.  We tried the old trick of leaving a half full pail of water with a bit of peanut butter on the edge, hoping that the pest might fall in and drown trying to taste the smooth Skippy- no luck!
The other day a boater was snorkelling trying to retrieve a pair of sunglasses from the bottom of a lock channel, he scraped his wrist against the wall which was covered in zebra muscles and instantly cut himself. Those little guys are sharp with a capital S.
Today, because the locks are close together we have been instructed to travel with a group of three other boats, ( a lock full). Passage has been a lot slower because of it. We went through seven locks including a 65' hydraulic lift lock ( the highest in the world).
Today's travels took 6hrs to go 8.6 miles and it has rained most of the day.
We are spending the next 2 nights in Peterborough's Little Lake Marina replenishing supplies and hunting down our stowaway to serve it an eviction notice.
Doug