The trip out of Gore Bay was pretty uneventful as the wind and waves were at our back for a change. But very cool. On the bridge I had on: a t-shirt, a thermal shirt, a turtleneck, a sweatshirt and a windbreaker - it looked like I had gained about 30 lbs! So not a nice day but we arrived at the Benjamin Islands about 10 am and managed to pick our way through the rocks to a great spot on Croker Island. The sun was out for the afternoon - which was enough time for Steve to do some climbing and great picture taking of our anchorage.
The dinghy went into the water and we made a trip to the beach which was just down shore a bit from the boat. It was very peaceful just listening to the waves wash up on shore. A bit more hiking and we called it a day as rain/storms were predicted for early afternoon.
Thursday cleared by noon as predicted so we dinghied to the other islands around us - quite the view from other rock peaks (I read by the dinghy as Steve played mountain goat :-)).
After two nights at this anchorage, it was time to move on. One of the pains of anchoring is having to collect all of the ropes to shore and anchors. Steve uses the dinghy to do this most time. Our windlass bit the dust a couple of weeks ago (we can exchange it hopefully in Chicago as it is still under warranty) so in the meantime, it's a lot of hauling by hand (by Steve of course).
It was very peaceful as we prepared to leave Croker although as the day wore on, the weather worsened and our plans to anchor out again were changed.
We traveled into Spanish yesterday (Friday) and will spend the night here again tonight as it is supposed to rain/storm again today. Really nice marina though.
And I found some highlighters at the grocery store in town (about a 15 minute bike ride)!! I've been wanting to mark the rest of our path as the charts don't really show you how to go - just show where the buoys are. So we are good to go as far as Drummond, Michigan now. That's about a week or so away but we are ready!
The dinghy went into the water and we made a trip to the beach which was just down shore a bit from the boat. It was very peaceful just listening to the waves wash up on shore. A bit more hiking and we called it a day as rain/storms were predicted for early afternoon.
Thursday cleared by noon as predicted so we dinghied to the other islands around us - quite the view from other rock peaks (I read by the dinghy as Steve played mountain goat :-)).
After two nights at this anchorage, it was time to move on. One of the pains of anchoring is having to collect all of the ropes to shore and anchors. Steve uses the dinghy to do this most time. Our windlass bit the dust a couple of weeks ago (we can exchange it hopefully in Chicago as it is still under warranty) so in the meantime, it's a lot of hauling by hand (by Steve of course).
It was very peaceful as we prepared to leave Croker although as the day wore on, the weather worsened and our plans to anchor out again were changed.
We traveled into Spanish yesterday (Friday) and will spend the night here again tonight as it is supposed to rain/storm again today. Really nice marina though.
And I found some highlighters at the grocery store in town (about a 15 minute bike ride)!! I've been wanting to mark the rest of our path as the charts don't really show you how to go - just show where the buoys are. So we are good to go as far as Drummond, Michigan now. That's about a week or so away but we are ready!
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