Drizzled on us as we weighed anchor, but then it stopped as we were traveling out of the harbor. Yeah!! We continued out into the Bad River channel and out into Georgian Bay.
We have a long run outside today, about 9.5 miles to get to Beaverstone Bay- thus we left early to get ahead of the weather and wind which will pick up this afternoon.
Our course took us 1.5 mile offshore past Fort Channel and Voyager Channel, where there is a large tract of Indian Reservation land. Then we passed The Chickens - a collection of over 300 islands and rocks just off shore. As it was cloudy my pictures did not turn out. Sorry!
We then turned north to enter the channel to Beaverstone Bay, past its low rock islands and then its forested islands and into the bay proper. And the sun came out so I have pictures!
We will travel Beaverstone Bay its entire length of 4 miles. The bay has about 25 islands in the middle of the bay and we skirt between the islands on the east side and the mainland as we travel north.
Here is the chart of Beaverstone Bay and the beginning of Collins Inlet.
As Beaverstone Bay ends, the navigational marks turn us into Collins Inlet which is a narrow rocky gorge with walls up to 30 feet tall and depths of 12-30 feet of water.
After 2.5 miles Collins Inlet opens up to Mill Lake, which we cross to reenter the continuation of Collins Inlet. On this portion of Collins Inlet the granite is more pink. Think the color is due to the pink gneiss in these rocks.
We also past a few hunting and fishing lodges along the channel.
And a few beavers lodges, but no beavers, yet. I have high hopes to find some!!
We anchored behind Key Hole Island just off the Collins Inlet with No Agenda, who traveled with us today.
After lunch, we launched the dinghy and joined Jody and Mike exploring the area. We climbed up several rocky areas and even conquered a mountain!?!
This was a view of Collins Inlet from one of the rock climbs.
Upon returning we shared some delicious appetizers with Jody and Mike aboard No Agenda.
Thanks for the great food and conversation and the free medical advice!!!
