Wednesday July 17: Blueberry Island

Killarney was a nice stay but one night was enough. Wednesday morning as we were fueling up, someone was calling “Guppy” - it was a couple we had met in June at the big chute railway on the Trent - a tug by the name of Elan. Their dinghy engine had died and they were stuck in Killarney – with their trawler out at one of the popular anchorages about 5 miles away! Could we tow their dinghy over there? Sure – we wanted to check out that anchorage anyway.

It was a nice place (they encouraged us to stay) but we had already decided that we were headed about 20 miles away to Frazier Bay. There must have already been 20 boats anchored at the place they were – way, way too many boats around for our taste :-)

The La Cloche mountains that line the waterway here are so unique in their white color. For more info on these mountains, click here. The rock is actually quartzite so the ride to our anchorage was really nice – especially with the sun out and shining on the rocks.

we found out the large home on the island near our anchorage belongs to the Lindt chocolate family – nice place …. but no sign of anyone around. 

Blueberry island is a great place to anchor and protection is provided from all sides and the view looking forward is very peaceful.

The water was a crazy 82 degrees so even I was in and lazing in the shade on my float :-) I do have high water temperature standards and the 60's and mid-70's we've seen elsewhere just didn't make the grade!

The night was very quiet and after a really nice kayak ride around our anchorage and the one just down the bay (just barely enough water for us in our kayaks to squeeze through the cut behind Blueberry Island), we pulled up anchor and headed out for our next destination: Baie Fine (pronounced “ bay fin”).

The weather was supposed to be going downhill on Friday so we thought we would find a good anchorage in Baie Fine and plan on spending a couple of days sitting out the weather (rain, thunderstorms)!