Another great day and good to be back cruising in the beautiful North Channel. We had breakfast, pulled up the anchor (well, the remote did it all) and were on our way at 8:45. We wanted to make the 10:00 swing bridge in Little Current which opens on the hour. We knew Little Current was full of boats till Thursday, but thought "maybe" they had something available as we saw lots of empty space on the wall. But waiting for a 72' yacht to come in and rest were reserved. Onto Spider Marina for a pump out (no space available) and then wait for the 11:00 bridge to open. We stopped in Mary Ann Cove for lunch and then resumed the cruising to the Pool in Baie Fine - more spectacular beauty and we were here in the early 90's with Miss Megan (28' sailboat) and Catrina in 2011.
We passed by so many tall rocky cliffs (mountains? hills? lots of trees). After getting the anchor secure, Mark got the dinghy in the water, we used insect repellant wipes and took off for the dinghy dock and thought we would hike to Topaz Lake (1/3 mile). A big part was flat, but then rocks, lots of tree roots and then came the mud - very wet mud that had no path on either side of the trail. So, today bugs were not the issue - but plenty of mud. That's when we decided "this is it" - we tried!!! We did see Topaz Lake on previous visits. 2 boats here from WI including a sail trimaran from Racine.
Rode the dinghy around the Pool and then settled in for the night with some icy cold beverages and refreshing showers.
Pretty scenery along the way...
No comments:
Post a Comment