Monday, July 28, 2014

Day 369 July 27 65 mi Sportsman Inn and Marina Killarney ON

This is a big day for us......our last section of the small-craft route and Georgian Bay.....
Departure 7:15AM.....
Beyond Byng Inlet
The "real" Georgian Bay wilderness begins here.  No roads come even close to the bay.  The rock is bolder, the soil cover thinner, and the twisted pines bow eastward from the relentless west wind.
We follow our tracks back to the small-craft route and turn starboard....wish the sun would come up and shine.....today is sweatshirt weather.....


 
 
 
A couple of miles beyond Byng Inlet you come to the first tight pass in these waters, Cunningham's Channel.  Simply take it slow and easy.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Another tight pass through Rogers Gut at Mile 12
 
 
This one just came through Rogers Gut
 
 
Our turn now
 
 
Stay between the red and green Captain
 
 
Your Starboard view
 
 
Your Port View
 
 
Henvey Indian Reserve
 
 
Cottages every now and then
 
 
Coming past Dead Island Channel
 
 
Coming into the Northeast Passage....open water
 
 
Anchorage between Strawberry and Tie Islands if the weather turns bad
 
 
Today is good
 
 
Bustard Islands
 
 
Bustard Rocks with the lighthouses
 
 
Another 4 miles of the Northeast Passage
 
 
Grondine Rock....
You either go outside to Killarney or continue the small-craft route
 
 
7 more miles of the Northeast Passage to Beaverstone Bay
 
 
41 miles to Beaverstone Bay
 
 
Through the narrow, shallow channels
 
 
We see a few fishing boats
 
 
Very few cottages
 
 
You make a sharp turn to port to enter the splendid gorge of Collins Inlet
 
 
We have plenty of water today
 
 
The passage is now deep from shore to shore
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
The once thriving town of Collins Inlet that died when the timber gave out in the 1920s
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Where is he going with his dog
 
 
Who lives here
 
 
At Flat Rock you have completed the inside passage of the 30,000 Islands
 
 
A short, 4-mile run across the panoramic top of Georgian Bay
 
 
 
 
delivers you to the lighthouse perched on Red Rock Point
 
 
at the entrance to Killarney
 
 
A very large Coast Guard Ship coming in
 
 
Busy Place....arrival 1:00PM
 
 
Yes you need a reservation
 
 
Look at this boat.....party time
 
 
Sportman's Inn and Marina....one busy place
 
 
Here he comes....there he goes
 
 
Wings at the Pub
 
 
168.5 miles from Port Severn to Killarney
 
 
They rope off the docks on the Island....You pay before you leave
 
 
White Screen....Boat Drive-In Movie tonight
 
We will stay in Killarney two days......have traveled 645 miles this season and we are through Georgian Bay......Time for the North Channel.....
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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