Day 405 – anchorage in “the Pool”, Baie Fine to Little Current Town Dock, Little Current, Ontario - August 14, 2012

Our original plan was to spend one more night at anchor before heading to Little Current, but we were not certain about what the weather had in store and we didn’t want to get caught in unpleasant conditions.  This is one of those times we really wished for better internet access here in Canada as we were stuck with only the weather we could get on the VHF radio for our information.  Having only the VHF radio information feels extremely limiting – the way Fred usually does his weather research is to check-out multiple web sites and a few different apps when he is making our travel plans.

We can report that there are definitely weeds in the Pool as evidenced by the mess we brought up on the anchor.  Fred had to spend a fair amount of extra time cleaning as he brought the anchor up.  We could see Bob working on Karma’s anchor next to us and we know we looked the same.

Our trip to Little Current was great and we timed our arrival at the Manitoulin Island swing bridge just about perfectly – less than five minutes of waiting and the bridge opened and we were through the very last bridge of our Loop.  We found Jim’s Joy and One September (Loopers we’d seen in Killarney) here at the dock and we said a quick hello.  Then we were off to the grocery store.  We have a number of chores we would like to get done while we are here – laundry, boat cleaning, shopping, etc., so we will spread them over the next two days (or more if we end up “stuck” here because of weather).

We joined Jim’s Joy and One September for dinner and continued the discussion we started in Killarney about good spots to anchor.  We also talked about the weather (a favorite topic of all Loopers).  We are all working on our plans for this last stretch of the North Channel – trying to decide how many days we can spend before we need to be to Drummond Island where we will check through Customs and back into the United States.

            Miles: 19.9      Bridges: 1        Locks: 0

Bob from Karma working on getting the weeds from "the Pool"
off his anchor

heading back out Baie Fine

beautiful rock colors along Baie Fine

Strawberry Island Lighthouse

the Manitoulin Island swing bridge - this is the last bridge
we will have to clear on our Loop