Have a sunset shot from last night and a video from French River yesterday I want to share.
Woke to a cloudy morning and readied ourselves to leave French River for the next river north of here - Bad River.
The sun came out as we weighed anchor, which took a bit of time - very weedy. Had to detangle the weeds from our chain as we pulled it up.
We said our good byes to French River and wound our way through the rocky islands out to Georgian Bay.
We turn North past the Bustard Rocks with its lighthouse and range markers.
After two miles in Georgian Bay, we turned toward Bad River Point and entered the channel up the river.
Bad River is named as such for its many convoluted channels and rapids once past the main river.
We anchored in the bay near Devil Door Rapids with 2 sailboats and 8 cruise boats. This anchorage has access to great hiking, 4 rapids and great fishing. The next channel over from the anchorage sports a old fishing camp which is still in use today.
After lunch we waited out some ominous clouds before launching the dingy to explore. In the meantime the rafted 6 motorboats left the anchorage and three more motorboats joined us. A popular place!
Dinghy at the ready, we took off for adventure. One has to motor up the Devil Door Rapids to get to the Cross Channel where you can access all the hiking and other rapids.
Luckily we asked a fellow boater if we could follow him through. He also showed us a mini fjord called Lovers Lane.
We stopped to rock climb to see if we could get above one of the rapids, but no luck. We did find some great granite walls and formations.
And a nice view once we got to the top!
Bill found another walking stick during the hike!
We explored Crooked Rapids and Liley chute.
Bill talked with our neighbor boat and found out he grew up in this area. He offered to show Bill how to shoot the rapids in the river. Of course, Bill took him up on the offer. He came back thrilled and was excited to tell me what an adventure we will have tomorrow. He said I might have to hold on to my hat!
July 25. Lay Day in Bad River
We woke to another gorgeous day. Did some chores and Bill flew the drone. Here are the shots.
We were joined by No Agenda, friends we met at the AGLCA Rendezvous last Fall. They joined us as we dinghied up Devil Door Rapids and took another tour of the Cross Channel and all its meandering waters.
We took more pictures of the scenery and rapids
We also managed to climb some rocks.
The most exciting part of exploring today.was shooting the rapids. Bill had some hard driving in the dinghy to keep us moving against the current up the rapids and off the rocks. Going down ended in a big splash. Here we are readying ourselves to go up the rapids.
This link below will show us going down the rapids.
https://youtu.be/OpVKcH90SFs
