Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Hopewell Bay, Ontario, Days 1 - 4

August 4, 2015
Hopewell Bay, Ontario - Georgian Bay

Winds are still too strong to head north as we are needing to go outside the islands into the main bay. Another day relaxing and exploring islands. 

August 3, 2015
Hopewell Bay, Ontario – Georgian Bay

We had a break in the rain and winds this morning so we took advantage of dinking around to ‘Garmin’s Island’ before the next band of storms rolled in this afternoon.  Forecast is calling for storms the next two days with very strong winds so we are staying in this small bay until fair weather on Wednesday.  The sounds of the Loon’s flying near us are amazing!

August 2, 2015
Hopewell Bay, Ontario – Georgian Bay

Another night “on-the-hook” as storms rolled in and stayed.  Winds were high, plenty of lightning and anchor holding great.  Boat was rocking, which rocked us to a very sound sleep.  We had very few breaks to dinghy to ‘Garmin’s Island’ for his free time.  We are finally receiving weather information via marine radio.  We are enjoying this ‘down-time’ and catching up on our rest. 

August 1, 2015
Hopewell Bay, Ontario – Georgian Bay

We traveled 33.3 NM today and are anchored at Hopewell Bay.  We started the morning off wearing shorts and T-shirts.  As we traveled north we added sweatshirts, then parka’s, hats, and socks! Nice cool temps in the 60’s for the first day of August! High’s expected today in the lower 70’s!

Special thanks to Michael for giving us the info to go off the dotted line to cut across an area which saved time as the water was plenty deep! We’ve dinked to several islands around us and Garmin seems to have claimed his favorite, aka, ‘Garmin’s Island’.  Sunset was the largest moon rise we’ve ever seen! Epic!  The moon was a big as the sun as it rose over the trees! Photos won’t do it justice.




Loon's


Snug Harbor Lighthouse







Cell Tower incognito as a Giant Pine Tree



Garmin's Island




G-Man brought back a bit of his Island







Garmin waits patiently for me to wake up and come up to the Salon each morning!





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