Littlle Current to Blind River

The first photo is the bow of a boat which wrecked at Kagawong. The bow is now the pulpit for the mariner's church. The second photo is the women from three of our boats standing near the base of Bridal Veil Falls near Kagawnog.

The third photo is Sunshine anchored with stern tied to the rocks at Benjamin Islands. The fourth photo shows some of the neat anchorage possibilities at the Benjamin Islands. This sail boat is tucked back into its own little nook in the rocks. The channel through here ranged from 10 to 30 feet deep. Right across from this boat were two sail boats anchored. The last photo is some of our group making smoores at the Benjamin Islands. Each time we make a blog entry we have from 100 to 150 photos to choose from. It is impossible to get enough good photos entered when the blog will only allow five each time.

The weather cleared on Monday and we left Little Current for Kagawong. It was a short run and we arrived about mid-morning so we decided to hike to the Bridal Veil Falls and eat lunch at the little hamburger stand near the falls and then back to the boat to leave. Oh! I forgot the stop at the chocholate factory before we left. We went on to the Benjamin Islands to anchor for the night. There were four other looper boats we knew so we got to visit with them again. The men from those boats built a fire on shore that night so I went ashore and had a drink with them. We enjoyed the anchorage so much we decided to spend another day there. Muriel and I and Southern Comfort took our dingies and circumnavigated the south island. There must be about a dozen anchorages in the Benjamin Islands. Chip on Ithaka started catching small mouth bass late in the afternoon right under his boat. He caught about 10 nice size fish in a few minutes. Later that evening we all went ashore where Bill from Blue Max had set-up a nice fire pit and gathered wood. We all enjoyed smoores complements of Peggy on Southern Comfort. The next morning before we left Chip and I cleaned his catch from the night before and he invited us to a fish fry that night.

We made a very short day, about six miles, to a nice anchorage at Hotham Island. We had a small cove in the rocks to ourselves, just the four boats in our group. We dingied around the island in the afternoon and all three of us had a nice swim. A little cool initially but very pleasant when you are in for a few seconds. Muriel made a peach cobbler for the fish fry. Southern Comfort brought the salad, Blue Max brought the snacks, and Ithaks provided the fish and macaroni. The meal was great, fresh fish is hard to beat! Today we left Hotham and traveled McBean Channel and Whalesback Channel to Blind River Marina. About 32 miles, this is a fairly short day but seems like a long day after all the very short days we have enjoyed. This will be our last night in Canada if the weather is good tomorrow we will cross the tip of Lake Huron to Drummond Island and re-enter the US. We hate to leave the beautiful and pleasant waters of Canada. We are having thunder showers this afternoon. We have come to expect afternoon showers and thunderstorms. The locals say this is not their normal weather pattern. They say their weather is not normally this unsettled.