Monday July 15: Thomas Bay - North Side of Georgian Bay

 Tobermory was interesting but very, very busy with folks in to enjoy what the Bruce Peninsula has to offer: diving, hiking, site-seeing in general. So it was time for us to go: first of course was breakfast out. Right at the end of our dock!! How could you beat that :-)

But then when I ordered eggs poached, the response (nicely said) was “we just do the basics – we can't do poached eggs” - well, ok then!

So it was a good thing that we went for the Beaver tails the day before. My intent was to take the Beaver Tail back to the boat to take a picture, right? Well, that just didn't work because we HAD to eat it while it was still warm, right?

REALLY good. We went for the chocolate banana – awesome …....

Yesterday as we walked around before we left, Steve put us in danger as he displayed total disregard for the plastic rope indicated no one should go through this area. Matt, where were you??

But I have to say I didn't feel to be in any danger and after all it WAS a shortcut to the ferry dock. It was a really fun ferry too – the nose of it lifts up so the cars can drive in. We were fortunate to see it as we were leaving the harbor.

There is a protected area here called Five Fathoms Marine Park which covers half a dozen islands in the Tobermory area. The most famous is Flower Pot Island – so named because of the rock formations which stand on the south side of the islands. Rumor has it there were originally 3 but now there are only 2 left. This one is by far the most impressive!

The day yesterday could not have been any nicer for the 55 mile trip across the northern tip of Georgian Bay. It was sometime hard to distinguish between the water and the sky.

By the time we reached the other side the rocky shoreline more familiar to us reappeared. How two different sides of a bay could be so different is amazing to me.

We ended up anchored in a place called Thomas Bay. Very well protected but a very interesting ride out of the channel and into this place. We shared the anchorage with 3 sailboats – one of whom had an anchor with 80 feet of chain out. In a 6 foot anchorage. Really? His swing circle was half of the bay – we decided to stay well of of his way …

and ended up just tying two lines to shore: one aft and one forward. For all of that work, it only made sense to stay here an extra day :-)

Plus it was such a great place to stay! Lots of places to kayak among the rocky areas that surrounded this bay.

Steve finally decided to try using WD-40 on the dashboard (a suggestion from Cheryl: “work on anything” - reminded me of the Windex in My Big Fat Greek Wedding). What a transformation! It looks like new! He'll put a few more coats on as the oil soaks in and replenished what the sun has baked out over the years. Amazing thing …..

Next stop is Killarney. We were there three years ago when we first retired and were traveling on the Loop.