(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.
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