Tuesday July 28: Bone Island – Headed Back to the Trent-Severn

So we spent a nice day traveling the 25 miles to Parry Sound yesterday. Steve made two trips to the grocery store (not a terribly fun ride to being with) – first trip without his wallet and the second trip with it :-)

Funny how they don't really extend credit like in the old days and in the small towns.

If my mom had driven into town, went shopping and realized she'd forgotten her wallet? No problem - just take the groceries and pay for them next time you're in town :-)

The Rotary bike trail (seems like quite a few towns have put these in – it's always nice to find one) runs under the railroad trestle bridge and is a nice shortcut to the breakfast place.

Orr's Deli and Meat Market is owned by Bobby Orr's family – not sure if he ever worked there or not but it was a great meal. FYI: Bobby Orr played hockey for the Boston Bruins in the 70's. For more info on him click here.

So Plan A was to continue north, traveling along the small craft channel in Georgian Bay until we were in the North Channel (at the very northern end of Lake Huron). And then we started checking the weather. Seems if we were going we'd best be doing it – west winds due in with 3 – 4 ½ foot waves on Thursday.

If that wasn't bad enough, winds, rain and cool weather were predicted for the North Channel for the next two weeks. Mmmm ….. Plan B: turn around and go back to the Trent where 15 knot west winds really don't make a lot of difference.  

By traveling a bit over 40 miles we were back close enough to Port Severn to get back in less than a day just in case the winds came in early.

It was the first time we tried this anchorage – another great find! By 5 or so, we were there with only one other boat. Perfect.

The water was like glass in the morning so a quick kayak was definitely in order. Steve came upon a very large gar (fish) swimming in a weird manner – it was hard to tell if it was a snake that swallowed too large of a fish or exactly what it was. Turns out it had teeth marks around a good part of it's body – apparently the lost dinner of a pike of muskie! Never saw that before!

Anyway – back to Port Severn tomorrow.