Day 75-76 2nd year. August 4-5. Lay Morning at Croker and on to Fox Island. Miles 6. Total miles 3688

 

We woke to a cloudy 60 degree morning.  It's windbreaker weather!!   Took it easy and relaxed, waiting for the sun to come out. 

Bill then took some drone shots of the anchorage at Croker island.

You can really get a better perspective of these islands from these drone shots.

About mid morning we launched the dinghy to explore the island in the center of Croker Bay.  More rock climbing!!!

This is the typical walking terrain on the islands.

On our hike we disturbed a few chipmunks, birds and a frog.  The frog even posed for us.

We came back to the boat for lunch and checked out the weather.  Looking at our options, we decided to weigh anchor and head to Fox Island, which forms the top of the spiral of these archipelago islands called the Benjamins.

Cruising out of the bay, we headed south and then turned east 

past The Sow and Pigs, which are pinkish.  There were lots of smaller rock formations, so I guess the sow had lots of piglets. 

and around South and North Benjamin.

A little further east, we turned into Fox Harbor, a long narrow harbor, and joined 4 sailboats in the anchorage.

Obviously more rock climbing is in order!  Enjoyed watching a family anchored with us as they took turns jumping off the rocks and swimming.  Too cool for us today.  Maybe tomorrow. 

Sunset shot at Fox Harbor

Day 76    August 5.  Fox Island

A beautiful morning greeted us in Fox Harbor.

Bill also took drone shots of the anchorage.

We set off to explore the island by dinghy and on foot.  We found lots of birds and chipmunks, frogs and even a small water snake.  Scaling the rocks with our walking sticks has become old hat and we easily pick out the best routes up to the great views.

Fox Island is bigger and has less elevation than The Benjamins, but still had spectacular views, especially to the west.  You can also see the La Cloche mountains in the background, in the picture below.

We met Marjorie and Dave from Kentucky while they were kayaking. They trailer their small sailboat up to Canada each year for 2-3 weeks in the summer.  They were kind and offered us the use of their kayak so we could explore some areas we could not get the dinghy into.  Here are the shots we took while kayaking.

On our way back to return the kayak, we saw Gordon and Jen, whom we had met in the Croker Island anchorage, as they were dinghying in the area.  They followed us back to our boat and we invited both Marjorie and Dave and Gordon and Jen aboard to share docktails.  We enjoyed sharing boating tales and stories.

Note:  Was unusual for me to say good-bye to someone who shares my name-Marjorie.  There are not too many of us around.