Little Current for Canada Day

We stayed over Sunday in Tobermory. 9.30 am Church. A Lutheran and Anglican Church right on the water. Beautiful, and a delightful and welcoming congregation. Lunch aboard Symmetry. Then a little afternoon rest, before we went for a walk to find the tower.

We found the interpretive centre first. Very well done displays and a video of Fathom Five Marine Park and the Flower Pot Islands. Fathom Five was the first Marine Provincial Park in Canada.

From the tower you can see the position of all of the surrounding islands relative to Tobermory. Another outstanding Canadian sight to behold.

Of course we had to have another ice cream cone on our return to the boat. Another rest and then about 8.30 pm we did a walk about the harbour. A beaver entertained us for quite awhile. Slapping his tail and diving, only to come back up again. We never did figure out where his house was.

Tobermory had us packed in like sardines on the wall, and it made for a very interesting/ read this as difficult departure. The nearest boat captains were most willing to help us get away from the dock and protect their boats at the same time. So, Monday morning we pushed off to make our way to Killarney. Bright sunny day, 10 k winds from the south, gave the boat an uncomfortable rock and roll that seemed to diminish as the day wore on. We departed 8 am, and arrived at 1;30 pm Killarney.

You can't visit Killarney without some fish and chips and ice cream. It is a tradition. No more school bus for fish and chips, a new building replaces it. The food is still as good as always, just new building for the whole operation. Our lunches seem to be so late in the day that we have no appetite for dinner. A glass of wine and cheese and crackers with some veggies seems a perfect alternative to a heavy dinner. We passed the evening on Symmetry's back deck watching the boat traffic on the channel.

Tuesday morning we had breakfast out at the Sportsman Inn. Has this ever changed. New owners, who have spent a lot of money upgrading the Inn. It is now at least a 4 star establishment. What a change from 5 years ago.

Tuesday we made our way to Little Current. Another bright sunny day, and this time there was warmth in the sun. Arrived around 1.30 pm. Walked the main street, and then walked to roadside lunch place up on the highway. Fish Tacos for lunch, and then you guessed it ...... ice cream cones. Well it was right next door, what could we do?

And has Little Current ever changed in the 5 years since we were here last. There is 1 mile of dock space here, with floating docks at either end of the wall along the main street.  An east and west docking area. The staff are as warm, friendly, and helpful as always. A good thing that some things don't change.

We had another afternoon rest,  and reading books. Peter and Jim took another walk to investigate the swing bridge. We had decided to meet for a late snack and wine on Symmetry on their return.

We will spend Canada Day in Little Current. Woke to a light rain, windy, overcast, and chilly. Jacket weather. Not the type of day we were hoping for. There is a lot going on here to celebrate. Let's hope the sun decides to show up later.

As I am writing this, Peter is washing down the decks of the boat to remove all of the small flies, and May flies that covered the decks this morning.

The wifi connections here are very slow, I mean snail mail slow. I have forgotten how slow wifi used to be. Patience is a virtue, but it will be a challenge. I suspect that wifi will be non existent in some areas of Lake Superior. The point I am trying to make is that these blogs will become infrequent as we travel. I will try to publish when we can.

Lake Superior Bound

(OK. I have the wrong blogger sight. We are aboard Deja Vu. I will get onto the right sight, but it will take too much time right now. Enjoy this blog.)

The hardest part about making a trip like this seems to be just getting away from the dock. There is always so much to do in preparation.

This year the pre trip maintenance for DejaVu included the building of a new swim platform, a new name signboard for the stern, all new plumbing lines throughout the boat, a new port light(window)    in the forward head, and then the regular  oil change, etc. And that is all before you can clean the boat and start to load the boat for everything you think you may need for the summer.

Our friends Jim and Linda Murray from Edisto Island, aboard Symmetry, (a 42' Symbol) had arrived from Brewerton New York where they had wintered their boat. They arrived on Monday and had waited patiently for us to extricate ourselves from our "landlubber" activities.

We thought we were all ready on Thursday night for the Friday morning departure. Decided to watch some TV. The new TV we had purchased for the boat. It wouldn't work. So very early Friday morning we exchanged the TV, installed and checked the new one. It worked! And we were ready to depart.

9:15 a.m., departing the dock Town of Midland. Jim and Linda had gone to Bayport to fuel and pump their boat and were ready. Our destination was White Cloud Island, near Wiarton on the Bruce Peninsula. We had a beautiful day for boating. Little to no wind, so little to no waves. And sunshine.

We ran into fog around Hope, Beckwith and Christian Islands. It seemed to be centralized around the islands and we ran out of the fog very quickly. There were a few moments that we could not see Symmetry through the fog.  The Nottawasaga Bay crossing was perfect, and in some spots the water was mirror-like. An unexpected event for such a large body of water.

We got into White Cloud about 4 p.m. I always like this anchorage. We have enjoyed many evening here and it did not disappoint. These are new waters for Deja Vu, but for us we reminisced other trips to the west side of Georgian Bay. It felt like deja vu for us.

Saturday morning we were up early and headed out by 7:15 a.m. The weather was to deteriorate into the afternoon with rain, possible thunderstorms, and wind gusts of 60 km out of the east. And we all know; nothing good comes out of the east in the area. We wanted to get as far as we could. While Lion's Head was our original destination, the weather didn't materialize and we pushed on for Tobermory(One of my favourite spots on Bruce Peninsula). Arrived 1:00 p.m. We made a short side trip along the way to show Jim and Linda Wingfield Basin, mother natures perfect harbour of refuge.

Once the boats were settled we walked the waterfront, decided to have a big lunch at the Crow's Nest Restaurant, and a light dinner aboard. Jim treated us all to ice cream cones, the perfect end to our meal. And we took a little walk about to enjoy our cones, work off some calories, and oh yes, do the tourist thing.

For some reason we all were tired and had an afternoon rest. Well you know how plans change ....... our lunch had been a mid afternoon meal, and come dinner time no one was really hungry. We decided to continue our resting and meet after 8 p.m. and see if anyone was ready to eat. We did get together about 8:30, no one was hungry, so we took another walkabout Tobermory. Returned to the boats about 10.

The bad weather never did arrive. It was cloudy all day and quite cool. We couldn't get warmed up.

The agenda for Sunday, weather permitting, Church 9:30 a.m, then off for Club Harbour ??? on our way towards Manitoulin Island.