Friday, August 01, 2008

Beautiful morning! Clear Blue sky as the sun rose over our little harbor. We are near halfway and Mother Superior remains good to us. Soon after departure the clouds moved in, the winds picked up and we sailed close hauled along the raw shore. Lots of ducks and we have added a new species (Golden Eye) to our bird book. Calm seas, spectacular scenery, rocky shores, mountains, numerous Islands and shoals to navigate around. The weather is much warmer then our first segment, no shorts yet, but pleasant! We remain off the Beaten Path and saw one cabin and a couple other boats all day. These parts are traveled by few. There were numerous reports of Sasquatch sightings in the Thunder Bay newspapers before our departure, but we have yet to see him/her. It is desolate up here and the experience can cause one to imagine things only to find your hallucinating .
Showers late afternoon. We bumped a couple rocks on the way into our safe harbor at CPR Slip, not an obvious route. The charts up here are not very accurate. We're at an old dock on the Southern Shore of St Ignace Island with a couple other local boaters and 7 or 8 Sea Kayakers. Complete with a Sauna and Outhouse.