4 August 2014

We got an early start out of South Benjamin Island. Around 11:00 we sighted a three masted sailboat cruising along south of us. A very pretty boat. We heard a call on the radio for a Michigan Sea Scout troop and we wondered if the boat was theirs.

At 11:30 we hit a small channel that’s known as “Little Detroit”. It’s not as narrow as Roger’s Gut but it has high cliff walls on either side of the channel. We slowed to be able to marvel at the rock. It was with much amusement that in the middle is a sign advertising a marina.

About an hour later we arrived in Moile’s Harbor at the east end of John Island. We were able to get a great anchorage next to a gap in the island that gave us a view of the Whalesback Channel.

We were both soon on the water, my first chance to try my new “Key Lime Kayak”. It worked very well. I was able to get into it pretty easily. It’s also easy to paddle and it goes pretty straight. It’s nice not having the sides since as we drift I can relax my legs and sit crosslegged.

We circled around to the south, there is a dock there for a YMCA camp. There is also a pontoon bridge that connects John Island to a smaller unnamed island for the campers to use. We paddled around that cove and the cove that we were in. Having the view from the kayak is very different that the bow of the Quo Vadimus. I’m very happy with my purchase.

Susan made hamburgers and coleslaw for dinner. Afterward we both tried to fish, neither one of us had any success. Over night the wind direction changed and rather than having our stern to the gap, we wre out in the middle of the cove, bow to the gap. It was nice, the drag alarm noticed the changes for us!