Saturday, July 28, 2012

We filled our water tanks and left Amant’s Marina, Britt, Ontario via Byng Inlet at 8:20 AM.  It was a beautiful day.  Our course took us through narrow rocky passagesin Beaverstone Bay next to Sheep Island that on a “not so good day” would have been hazardous.  The Canadian waterways are very well marked, including these passages.  The rock formations are amazing here as you will see by the photographs.  

Around 11:30 AM we arrived at Bustards, a very popular anchorage. Some of our Looper friends we’ve encountered in our travels were anchored there:  Quest, Marc’s Ark and Blue Heron, and we passed Rickshaw coming out as we were coming in.  We poked our nose in and decided to continue on.  Around 1:00 PM we were traveling downwind and were plagued with flies, gnats and all other manner of annoying bugs.  Thank the Lord for the bug zappers.  The Captain is getting quite adept at bug annihilation.  I got the dust buster and sucked up the carnage.  We were certainly happy when the wind direction changed and we were bug-less once again. 

At 3:45 PM we arrived at Mill Lake off Green Island.  It’s a beautiful anchorage, but until we found good holding, it took us three tries at anchoring in three different locations.  It was reedy and had a sort of clay bottom, and we finally found a comfortable spot and settled in at about 4:30 PM.  Easy 3, fellow Loopers we had met in Montreal were also anchored there in a different section.  It was nice to see them again.  At anchor we had good tv reception and caught up on the news, watched some Andy Griffith reruns, and went to bed early. It was very good sleeping weather.  Total mileage today 47 miles.

The emerald green/turquoise water of the Georgian Bay

Beaverstone Bay next to Sheep Island

One of many cottages on the rocks in Beaverstone Bay

Rogers Gut on the way to Bustards

Beaverstone Bay on the way to Bustards

Mill Lake off Green Island

Mill Lake

Mill Lake