Over Night Trip to Almonte

 At the Tea and Cake for High Tea

Bakewell Derbyshire by Michael Neelin was one of the drawings hung at the Tea and Cake

Another is entitled Derbyshire Mill

 Dinner at the Heirloom Restaurant

Such a boar!

Our Little Hotel on the River

 View from our Balcony Wheatly Room Riverside Inn, very chilly at 7:30 AM 

 Breakfast in the Bar (French Toast and Kitchen Creation, (Soldiers with coddled eggs))

 Textile Museum visit opens at Noon on Saturdays so 3/4 of an hour stroll to pass the time until the museum opens

 MillFall condominiums and grounds (very snooty), lots of no enter signs.

 First to pay and enter the museum 12:00 sharp

Example of sculpture in steel by Newfoundland artist from Hearts Ease

 Very neat art work on fabric, not sure if its woven or photographic (looks much better in photos than to the naked eye.

Mill owner's office restored to its original condition

Day Trip to Luskville Falls/Fair

Published by Hayley Juhl

Parks Canada calls Luskville Falls Trail challenging, and they are not kidding around. The path is marked with arrows painted on rock and small blue signs that are so good at not interfering with nature that it’s sometimes hard to find them.

For the first half of the climb up the Eardley Escarpment, one must use boulders and tree roots as footholds and haul oneself forward using thin trees that shower their leftover raindrops on one’s head and shoulders.

It feels as though the climb might not end, even after the pause on the first rocky lookout, which offers a beautiful yet typical view of Southern Ontario. And then it is up yet more, to the second lookout, named Pontiac for the chief of the Ottawa nation. The Ottawa River Valley was Algonquin land generations before it was overrun with Lusks in the 1820s and then us, daytrippers who just want a good climb and a great view.

Joseph Lusk arrival to the site from County Antrim, Ireland. When he gazed at the Eardley Flats, the mountains in the background, and the Ottawa River in the distance he decided to stay and make this place which bears his name his home. And stay he did! He and his wife Esther Balmer raised 9 children (three were born in Ireland), and their descendants flourished in numbers and in land-holdings. At the time of their deaths in 1873 (Joseph) and 1878 (Esther), they and their descendants had acquired 2000 acres. Nearly every farm in the area was owned by a Lusk.

We decided to drive another 20 K west on route 148 to the village of Quyon and take the ferry back to the Ontario side of the river.