Day 364 July 22 41 mi Henry's Fish Restaurant and Marina ON

 

 

 

 

Departure Day from Rawley Resort and Marina

 

 

We are at the lock wall at 8:30AM

 

 

9AM opening....Port Tie

 

 

There we go into Georgian Bay...open Lock Tender

 

After Port Severn keep green buoys to port, red to starboard.  The entrance to Georgian Bay is not the place to mistakenly travel on the wrong side of a buoy since there is no margin for error in the shoal waters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Thirty Thousand Islands region is one of the great cruising grounds in the world.  The islands create the world's largest fresh water archipelago.  There only one town...Parry Sound....that is larger than a hamlet.

Depth can change from 40 feet to zero in less than a boat length and frequently do.  The Coast Guard adds buoys where necessary to mark new shoals along the small-craft route and adds white and yellow information buoys warning of low water...below 6 feet...to aid boaters

The small-craft route is a 185-mile passage that has a controlling depth of 6 feet.  We will travel from Port Severn to Killarney.

 

Port Severn to Honey Harbour includes Potato Island and it is our first challenge at mile 3....we have to go very slow and stay in the channel...

 

 

 

 

Lowest depth....6'9"

 

 

Hello Georgian Bay

 

 

Lots of rock

 

 

Wayne and Barb catch us and take the lead

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bet you can get an ice cream here

 

 

 

 

Where is the boat traffic

 

 

Hold on....here they come

 

 

Want to race

 

 

You have to love your neighbors

 

Honey Harbour to Twelve Mile Bay

The area from Honey Harbour to south of O'Donnell Point is heavily cottaged.  Some cottages date from the late 1800s, when this region first became popular as a summer resort.  People travelled by rail to Collingwood and then by steamer to one of the area's hotels or, if the water was deep enough, were dropped off at their own island.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When cottages on Georgian Bay first acquired electricity, overhead hydro cables were stretched from island to island.  They are now being replaced by submarine cables....

 

 

The large, lighted, red and white beacon at O'Donnell Point

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coming by Frying Pan Island

 

 

Henry's Fish Restaurant and Marina....our stop

 

 

Fish tonight

 

 

De Plane.....De Plane

 

 

Off they go.....

 

 

De Plane....here they comes

 

 

And there they goes....Tatoo

 

 

Great Fish Dinner.....Great Place to stop.....