21 July 2014

(Pictures soon)

We spent an extra day in Hopewell Bay, Susan got more chances to kayak and get more chances to fish.

We packed up and headed out about 10 for one of our longest jumps in the Georgian Bay, about 30 miles. The first part of the journey was nice, we were back behind the islands pretty well shielded from the wind.

There were a few really interesting moves, one was making a 145 right hand turn out around a point. It’s not really well marked, if it wasn’t for the charts you were not going to be able to follow it. After some more island hopping we came across the first part of the Georgian bay that we would get the full force of the wind.

To say Belle wasn’t pleased would put it mildly. She doesn’t like it when the boat rolls or bounces around. And we rolled and bounced around for about an hour while on the outside channel. On the way we met friends on the Mañana and El Cabana. (We have come across them a few times, last time was in Parry Sound. They were returning from a trip to Kilbare)”

We were soon back inside and passing Cunningham’s Paradise. There are statues on the island and skeleton sitting on a chair on the floating dock. Just passed that we made a sweeping right hand turn into Sandy Bay. We traveled to the end, there is a small, but nice beach at the end.

We got anchored and did some fishing. Neither one of us caught anything, even Susan didn’t have any nibbles. But it was a very pretty place to anchor.

Susan whipped up another of her amazing dinners and we spent the rest of the evening reading.

It’s so relaxing here, and it’s great to pick my eyes off a book and look in the rocks.