Continuing on our journey, Tuesday morning we left the marina. We headed for one of the islands in Georgian Bay, Beausoleil Island. Which the whole thing is a National Park. There were several hiking trails we wanted to check out. The first one was supposed to lead you to a light house. It was a very beautiful trail, pretty forest along the water. But it ended up being more of a light tower. Metal scaffolding with a light box on top. Not particularly charming.

Each trail head was at a different spot along the island that had its own dock so we scooted over to another trail head that only had a very small dock with two boats already tied up. We decided to anchor out and take the dingy to shore. This hike was called Fairy Lake. So a lake on an island on a bigger lake 😆. This “trail” was very different. Open flat rock marked by poles that was somewhat hard to follow. Fairy Lake was very pretty though, and there was a small section on the back part of the looped trail that was through the trees and was nice.

When we got back to the boat, our buddy boats, Salty Dog and New Adventure messaged us to say they were headed our way.

Wednesday we all set off together to another anchorage a little further north. It was a nice little cove with plenty of space. They introduced us to Nautoncall, another boat traveling our way. After we all got set up, we took the dingy’s to this locally famous fish & chips restaurant called Henry’s. It is very specially popular with boats and float planes! We saw a few take off as we were coming in.

We started calling our group the Don floatilla 😆

The fish fry was excellent! 😋 The next few days looked iffy for weather, so we decided to stay and hang out where we were.

Thursday we took the dingy around to explore some of the other coves. We saw the boat Voodoo, which is another Ranger Tug, one size bigger than ours. We also checked out this community picnic area that had a fire pit. We wanted to do hot dogs and whatnot but it was too windy. We met on Salty Dog for happy hour instead. Ooo if you’ve never had garlic stuffed giant green olives, yum!

Friday the wind and current were particularly rough. The anchor came loose and we started freely drifting in the water. 😯 It was a scramble to get the anchor up and reposition the boat. We decided to move entirely to a different spot across the bay that would hopefully be less affected by the wind. Don also tied our stern to shore so the boat wouldn’t swing as much. The group decided to try the fire pit in evening after the wind died down a bit. There were several boats rafted together near our new spot that had a dance party going well into the night. The music was good at least, but it’s hard to fall asleep to Pump up the Jam.

This morning the weather seemed to be better so we set off to check out another location further North still along the loop route. We came to Snug Harbor and found a good spot to anchor that was nice and calm. As we were coming in there was an actual lighthouse on the island edge.

There was a nearby restaurant/store that Nautoncall Don said had the best smoked fish. We were able to try some and it was really good. Basically fish jerky. My Don and I opted to just get ice cream though.😊 They also had these neat coasters that had pictures of the area printed on stone. We’ve been saying we need some for the boat so we got two.

When we got back to our boats we met up on Nautoncall for happy hour. We planned an early and long day for tomorrow. Headed up to the top of the Bay. So it’ll be an early bedtime for us. Which after listening to last night’s dance party will be welcome tonight.

Stay tuned for the next part of the journey!