Into Georgian Bay

7/12 - Wednesday we landed at our next destination, the town of Midland and stayed on the outside wall of the Midland Town Docks.  Here we put the boat mast back up!  Cheers is back to normal!!! Yeah! 

We ate a the Boathouse located in the marina.  The food was great, there was live music and dancing and we caught up on last Sunday's Yellowstone 1883!   As we headed to bed it started to rain and we were treated to the pitter patter of the rain on the bow.   Another great day!   But....about 4 am we woke up to the boat bouncing pretty good on the wall.  The wind had picked up blowing from town, but the waves were curving around giving us a pretty good bounce.  Oh, and of course it was raining cats and dogs!  

We added additional fenders, filled our water tank (we were planning on doing that in the morning), unplugged the electric and pulled our lines.  The wind was going to shift from shore and we needed off that wall.  So just at first light, we pulled away from the wall and headed on into the Georgian Bay!  

We saw winds as high as 35 knots but the waves in the Bay had not picked up yet.  We found a nice anchorage just off Beausoleil Island, a Canadian National Park where we had protection from the wind.  It stopped raining and after lunch we dropped the dingy and took Roxie to shore for a much needed potty break and a little exploring of the area by dingy.  

We decided to stay at this anchorage tonight.  The plan; a warm shower (it only got to 69 degrees today), dinner with a little wine and early to bed.  It's been a long day!     

Friday morning, we started our way north up Georgian Bay on the small craft route looking for our next anchorage. 

Georgian Bay is beautiful.   It is very large, deep with rock outcroppings where the water depth goes from 80 feet to 0 in just seconds!  You have to stay on course and keep a good lookout even when your out in what appears to be deep open water!

The land here is mostly flat rock, boulders and trees.   

Some lucky people have wonderful "Cottages" dotting the shoreline.

We found our next anchorage in King Bay, that provided protection from all directions.  We spent the afternoon exploring the area by dingy.  Made porkchops on our new grill for dinner!

I think Roxie is enjoying her new life!  Happy girl!

Saturday morning we headed off for the next destination.  It was a little overcast and the bay had about a two foot swell.  

Here are going through a a couple of tight section along the coast of the bay.  

We landed at Henry's!  This a pretty popular stop along the loop as they provide docks with electric and the restaurant on the hill is famous for their fish and chips dinners!  

Sunday morning we headed to Echo Bay. 

We got a great spot and stern tied to the cleat on the small island with the main island complete around us.  This is a popular spot and there were several boats tied along the shore.   

 

We had a great stay in Echo Bay enjoying living on the hook!  Tomorrow we will leave early to make our way to Parry Sound for a pump out, provisions, water and laundry!