Day 56 Saturday, August 17 - Wingfield Basin to Cove Island
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| Adanaco at anchor Wingfield Basin |
Again we awake to another beautiful day. Today is to be a short sail to Tobermory
where we plan to pickup fuel and then anchor in Big Tub harbour. It is only a 13 nautical mile sail so we
leave around 10 after a leisurely start to the day. We try to sail but the winds are not there at
all so it turns out to be a 3 hour motor for us.
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| Lighthouse at Tobermory |
We arrive at Tobermory just after 1 and pick up fuel and then
make our way over to Big Tub. Although
we have been to Tobermory in the past we have never anchored in Big Tub, but
the Ports guide does speak of it being common practice. Well, for both of us it is too narrow with
traffic heading back and forth to wrecks at the end of the harbour and
cottages/summer homes along both sides.
We decide to cancel this idea and head over to Cove Island Harbour.
Cove Island Harbour was the location of our first anchorage
with Jazzebelle back at the end of June so we are familiar with it. We motor over and are at anchor by 4 pm. There are 3 other boats in the harbour 2 power
and one sail. After we settle in we
start up a conversation with our neighbours, the sail boat and find out they
are on their way up to the North Channel from Lake Erie. We are heading that way so we paddle over
with a beer to get some local knowledge on traveling the St Clair River and
Lake Erie. It turns out Matt and Judy
have been making the pilgrimage up to the North Channel for the last 20 years
from Toledo Beach and have some great info for us as we have never sailed past
Sarnia.
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| Jazzebelle at anchor Cove Island Harbour |
We have an excellent dinner and then take the dinghy out for
some evening shots. The winds forecasted
for the next day are not favourable for the sail south so we make the decision
to spend an extra day at Cove Island. It
will give us a chance to look around a bit as we just stayed one night on the
way up.
Cheers
Dawson and Julie
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