Commercial fishing vessel in Canada where nets come out the small side door and fish are processed inside the long low cabin. Our last night in “Oh Canada” and we were greeted by the Canadian Border Patrol as we entered Meldrum Bay. They were cordial and only asked to see the Canadian entry number in […]
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Meldrum Bay – Good Bye Oh Canada
July 27, 2012 Clayton, NY – Kingston, Ontario
We arrived Kingston, Ontario, after departing Clayton, NY–our intended 2 day stay lasted almost 2 weeks, enabling us to get lots of reading done. We also enjoyed the Antique Boat Museum and the Concourse de Elegance. Bottom line–we were …
Gore Bay and Little Current
The anchorage in Browning Cove was wonderful, very protected and totally quiet. We had no cell phones, no internet, no TV and only the quiet of nature: the cry of the loon, so haunting; the screech of the bald eagle settling in for the night after a day of hunting prey; and the silver […]
Anchorage at Heywood Island
Awakened by thunder and lightning, then heavy rain, we stayed in Killarney during the morning watching our weather radar. However, by 11 a.m. skies were clearing and the weather radar indicated that we were finished with the line of showers. We cast off the dock with a little help from a neighboring skipper because […]
Hiking in Killarney
“Boat-In-Theater” where they show a movie on the screen on the opposite shore and you tune to a FM Radio station for the sound on your boat. After an ice cream party last night, the last of our Grand Banks friends departed this morning, but there is still a lot of action here in Killarney. […]
Killarney on Georgian Bay
Muriel June with a group of Grand Banks from Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana Killarney, Ontario—not Ireland and above the 46th parallel Every morning we check all the weather indicators we have: Weatherbug, NOAA, Wunderground, IKITESURF.com etc. This morning even through we’d had only one lovely day in Tobermory, we decided to cruise across Georgian Bay […]
Tobermory and Georgian Bay
Six hours of cruising over total glass waters and we entered the pristine Tobermory Harbor along with several other Grand Banks who had just come from a rendezvous in Parry Sound. So, it is another rendezvous for us here with fellow Grand Banks owners and lots of other boats. Tobermory is the entrance to […]
Port Elgin Harbor
This is our last Canadian port on the major part of Lake Huron before we get into Georgian Bay. The weather is predicted to be glorious as we cruise the last 75 miles of crystal blue water tomorrow to Tobermory, the gateway to Georgian Bay. We passed many fishermen as we headed north today and […]
Goderich, Ontario, Canada
Grain elevator torn apart along with town by tornado July 2011 At 6 a.m. we were off the dock into the very swift St. Clair River as it runs under the Blue Bridge. We followed a barge pushing a dredge out of Port Huron and headed 35 degrees northeast to Goderich. Seas were between 1 […]
Port Huron
The Blue Water Bridge, gateway to Lake Huron, came into view about 1 p.m. today as we tied to the Ontario side of the St. Clair River in a town called Sarnia. After a 4:30 a.m. wake up, we left port at 6 a.m. to head across Lake St. Clair. Our weather –bug screen showed […]
