Going Home

With summer drawing to a close we hauled Shore Thing and stored her at Admiral's Marina for the winter. We stopped at Niagara Falls on the way home and were treated to a beautiful rainbow - created by the mist from the Falls.

We will continue our trip and our blog next summer.

Big Bird, Honey Harbour

Came back to the boat after a tour of the area, including Parry Sound, and found the Canadian version of the Great Blue Heron walking around our dock checking out all the boats!

Admiral's Marina, Honey Harbour

Our new guests arrive - Greg & Marzena from our neighborhood. We took them to Bone Island, one of our favorite places, and visited with Ted & Pat.








Greg played rock star to the ladies.

Our rainy day activity was to drive around the area looking at some of the locks on the Trent Severn waterway. We stopped at the Marine Railway where Ed enthralled Marzena with his detailed description of the mechanical workings of the railway!!!

Honey Harbour, Georgian Bay

We've been in Georgian Bay since August 30th. It's really a beautiful place. Unfortunately there hasn't been much WiFi availability so we haven't been able to update our blog. We're on a "borrowed" computer at a nearby resort and are restricted from adding pictures so we'll update the blog when we return home later in September. Lolly and Duncan, friends from home, joined us for a great week of exploring some of the 30,000 islands of the Georgian Bay. Tomorrow we are expecting Greg and Marzena, also from Mumford Cove, to join us for a few days. After that it's time to winterize the boat and come home.

Here are some of the GPS locations we visited if you want to look them up in Google Earth.
Honey Harbour 44 52.416 N, 79 49.047W
Bone Island, a great anchorage where we met some new friends Ted & Pat, Dave & Sue, (who completed the Great Loop) 44 56.165N, 79 51.648W
Frying Pan Harbour, home of the world famous "Henry's Fish House", 45 10.464N, 80 08.222W

Indian Harbour, Georgian Bay for lunch

The passages to and from Henry's were very narrow and the alignment of the boat had to be pretty exacting. When we entered Indian Harbour, it was just beautiful. We did some gunkholing and found a very interesting sign on an island that said that it was a release area for the rattle snake. We decided not to go ashore on the island. We did go swimming and it was probably our last swim for the season.

The "rock person" imitates indian statues that show which way to go.

Henry's Frying Pan Island

Some of the things we saw on our way to Henry's which is an internationally known resturant. People actually come by float plane. They have dockage for about forty boats. It was about 27 nautical miles from Beausoleil Island to Henry's.

45 10.464'N

80 08.222'W

Frying Pan Bay, Beausoleil Island, Georgian Bay

44 53.883'N
70 50.772'W

Just a little inlet on Beausoleil Island which is a Provincial Park. The sign that talked about bears discouraged us from walking around the island. We met probably the last of the loopers. They really were far behind. They were from Texas.

Bone Island, Georgian Bay

Some of the scenery on or near Bone Island

Pat's brothers place

Pat's brothers place. We stopped by while we gunkholing and had a wonderful time.

Bone Island, Georgian Bay

1. The next day Pat and Ted lead us on a gunkholing trip around the area. We stopped at Pat's brother's cottage and had a great time.
   
   
   Sun. afternoon Ted lead us to Bone Island very near his cottage and invited us over for cocktails and to talk about their great adverture along with Sue and David. We had a delightful time and saw the most beautiful cottage. Pictured are: Linda, Pat and Ted Larson, Lolly and Duncan Stoddard (Ed took and picture).
   
2. There was no room on the dock so we anchored.
   44 56.165'N
   
   79 51.648'W
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Admirals Marina, Honey Harbor

We stayed in Honey Harbour doing some odds (laundry) and ends (dinghy rides for ice cream) until our neighbors from Mumford Cove, Lolly and Duncan, arrived on 9/1/07. In the mean time we met Ted Larson who had the slip next to us in the Marina. Ted, his wife Pat, along with neighbors Dave and Sue had done the loop in 2004-2005 aboard Ted and Pat's boat. Their cottages are on Tabasakwa Island and Ted offered to lead us into the area and Bone Island.