Crustacean Travels

 We left Covered Portage with No Agenda and Escape on this cloudy cool morning, which promises to be another sunny.  We are in sweat shirt and windbreakers and it is July 29! Following the Landsdowne Channel, we pass a series of rocks and larger islands to turn around Badgeley Point and cross Frazier Bay. On the way we passed a mining operation which trees have almost over grown.  Being a Saturday no mining was going on.  Looks as if gravel was the product of this operation. A few miles further we past another Hole in the Wall between Creak Island and Frazier Point.  Much too shallow for us to try to go through. North Channel has CruiserNet which broadcasts over the Marine radio at 9:00 each morning.  The host shares weather and news from the area and asks boaters in the area to call in and give their boat name and location.  Boaters also ask questions and get info about North Channel.  This is a great resource for us boater in unfamiliar waters. ...

 After raining most of the evening, we woke to a beautiful sunny day to weigh anchor and visit the small town of Killarney.  As we turned north out of Collins Inlet, the La Cloche Mountains dominate the view to the northeast. Traveling along the coastline we came to the Killarney lighthouse which marks the entrance to the Killarney channel.   Along the channel we slowed to take in all the sites. First is the largest paddle in the world and the Killarney Mountain Lodge. Here Jody and Mike who were traveling with us, stopped to take a slip.  They will join us for lunch later. The rest of the channel is filled with a few cottages but mostly marinas and four stores/restaurants each with their own dock.  The cottagers all come to town by boat and tie up to the store dock or the public dock to get supplies in town. We pulled into the liquor store dock(LCBO) to wait for a fishing boat to leave the larger dock behind Herbert’s Fisheries.   After they pulled away we...