Longuissa Bay, Ontario

We got a slow start on Tuesday morning, August 14 because Lynn wanted to write the blog entry for the travel adventures over the past five days.  We finally left Bay Port Marina at 10:40 and made our first foray into the 30,000 islands portion of Georgian Bay. Cruising among rocky outcroppings on a beautiful calm and sunny day was a wonderful experience. 

We passed through the Musquash Channel where we saw a variety of the “cottages”that are so prevalent here.

We explored two other anchorages off of Bone Island but didn’t choose them because they were very small and already had plenty of boats in them.  Georgian Bay is a popular cruising area and we are finding that you have to get to an anchorage early if you want the prime spot and there is more than likely to be other boats there.  Somehow we thought it would be a bit less populated than it is.  But it is still exquisite and there are many fabulous places to anchor.

We cruised a long narrow passage into Longuissa Bay which had been recommended to us.  This was a larger anchorage then the others with two boats in the bay and one in the channel.  We spent quite a bit of time trying to anchor in the narrow area without blocking the channel.  The third time was the charm and we finally got ourselves set, a little closer to our sailboat neighbor than we would have liked but OK no nonetheless.

Jonny went down below to check the engine and discovered a significant fuel leak!  This was very upsetting as it was not apparent in  the five days we were at the marina.  He spent an hour and a half identifying the source of the leak and trying unsuccessfully to address it by tightening screws, making phone calls, etc.  We finally decided to return to Bay Port Marina the following morning to have greater access to tools and parts to fix it.

To work off his frustration, Jonny went for a very long paddle while Lynn read and started dinner.  We caught up with Stephanie by phone and after dinner watched a movie.  It was a very calm anchorage. Before we went to bed,we went outside to look at the night sky.  There was no ambient light so the stars were out in full force. We could see the Milky Way and it was breath-taking.  That night, Lynn slept soundly through the night though Jonny was awakened several times by Georgio for no apparent reason!