Mon 7/23, Day 80: Anchored east of Ruddy Island
Tues 7/24, Day 81: Anchored in Kilcoursie Bay
Wed 7/25, Day 82: Anchored in Shawanaga Island
Thu 7/26, Day 83: Bing Inlet
For the next several days, we’re travelling through the region known as the 30,000 islands, even though there are reportedly a lot more islands than 30,000 in this part of Georgian Bay. Navigating through this massive archipelago is a definite challenge, because it is very difficult to really know which islands we’re near without keeping close tracks all along the way of where we are, especially since our electronic charts don’t cover most of this area. So, we navigate by using paper charts and plotting our latitude & longitude along the way. We’ve spent every night at remote anchorages with names like Frying Pan Bay, Kilcoursie
& Shawanaga with crystal clear aquamarine waters surrounded by beaches or granite boulder-lined shores. On Tuesday, 7/24, we met up with our friends, Joe & Tara from Atlanta on Seabatical, whom we met last year in Norfolk, at the AGLCA rendezvous, and have kept in contact with ever since, waiting for this year when we, including Al & Dawn, could meet up with them on the Great Loop. While anchored off of Shawanaga, the 6 of us took an exploratory cruise among the boulder islands and outcroppings in Ricky-Dink (our dinghy) prior to a delicious dinner prepared by Tara. We’re slowly working our way northwest up the eastern shore of Georgian Bay, heading toward the upper shores of Lake Huron, called the North Channel, which is considered to be the most beautiful part of the entire loop. On Thursday, we headed into Wright’s Marina in Britt to get connected to the internet (so we could, among other tasks, get caught up on posting to our blog).
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