August 10 - Friday

Smooth Seas, total calm today. What a difference the weather can make in the same waters. Calmness brings a relaxed state, a time to read. It also brings bugs, which bring the fish to the top, which brings the loons for the fish. The binoculars are used more, and there is time to get to know each other better.

The North Channel is beautiful and there are lots of boaters up here to enjoy it. The sailing and vessels remind me of a Caribbean port. We are in Little Current and they have cruise net tomorrow on VHF just like we were in Georgetown.

A few of the passages up here are so narrow that you hear securite on the radio as boats enter the passage. The channel out of Little Current is about 100 yards wide, between two huge bodies of water, the North channel and Georgian Bay. It is more like a big current. We have to watch our departure tomorrow, the currents can be 6 knots and we can’t power up that until it changes. There is also a swing bridge across the channel that opens on the hour. So not the normal get up and go…

A Hot one today, lots of sun, we had our tarp cover up over the mast.