After Ottawa, our next major destination was Toronto. But instead of driving over 450 kilometres straight there, we decided to split the long journey into two days. There were two reasons for doing so. Firstly was to divide the drive into more manageable chunks, and secondly, to give us the leisure to explore a little of the land in between the two larger cities.

Our first stop of the day was at the little town (village?) of Rockport, on banks of the St Lawrence river. There, we took a Rockport Boat Line cruise-tour of the Thousand Islands.

Many of these islands on the St Lawrence River were privately owned (such rich people!), and straddled the border between Canada and the US. Several also had interesting stories to them.

From Rockport, the highway we took generally followed the St Lawrence upstream, and we stopped for the night at the city of Kingston, at the head of the river. The city was apparently Canada's first capital (when it was a province), and definitely had a historical feel to it.

After a short wander around the city's waterfront, we had a nice, homely dinner at a restaurant/diner named Aunt Lucy's. While it wasn't fine dining by any measure, the food was very good, and the portions generous.

The next morning's breakfast, at Pan Chancho bakery cafe, was also very nice.

From there, we continued onwards to our next 'detour' of sorts, where we stopped by at several of the wineries in Prince Edward county. Grange of Prince Edward and Huff Estate were two that we stopped at.

Most of the area was fairlt idyllic farm country, and thus very pleasant to drive through.

After spending several hours in the area, we then headed back onto the main highway, and off towards Toronto for more big city adventures.

Till the next time,

Raylen