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Day 33 2nd year. June 22. Exploring Georgian Bay and anchorage at Indian Harbor. Miles. 27.7 Total. 3229

 Last night we saw some new things-  a jet ski Uber Eats driver delivering food to a boat at the dock and a fully completed dock being towed to its new home.  What you have to do when you live around so many islands.  

We woke to another gorgeous day!  Walked a bit on Beausoleil Island, enjoying all the antics of the chipmunks and the song of the various birds.

We left the dock and headed north.  Today we will scout out anchorages on our way to Indian Harbor, where we will anchor tonight.



Leaving Beausoleil we rounded Roberts Island and cruised through the narrow channel that leads to the town of Honey Harbor and it’s many cottages and marinas.  




Then we passed into Inner Channel at the north end of Beausoleil Island.

We can see why people enjoy boating on Georgian Bay- so many bays and coves to explore!  And explore we did. First we wandered into Frying Pan Bay and a Goblin Bay, which will be perfect for family which will be visiting us soon.




Cruising further, we turned off the main channel into Musquatch Channel to explore Longuissa Bay, Brown Bay and Hockey Stick Harbor (its shaped like a hockey stick).

As you can see by the pictures, all these bays are have high granite shorelines with pine forest and a scattering of cottages.




We returned to the main channel and passed many granite islands and into more open water until we turned off into Monument Channel.  This channel winds through several granite islands.  To get to our anchorage, we left Monument Channel and up into the rocks.  Thank goodness for range markers and lots of buoys to guide us along.


We anchored in the small harbor with four other boats, one being our Canadian friends, the McKendrys, who are graciously playing tour guide for us and providing pointers on cruising Georgian Bay.  Thus was our first experience in anchoring with a rocky bottom.  So far, so good.




This is a picture of our first wind swept pines, so typical of Georgian bay.


We will relax a bit, then put the dinghy in the water to explore these granite rocks and islands.








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