Gran Vida's Great Half-Looped Adventure: Little Current

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Stats

Bustard Islands to Little Current. 55.1 Nautical Miles, 9.5 hours.

Fog in the morning, clearing to glass-like calm in the afternoon. Anchored outside of Little Current behind Picnic Island.

Running Total: 170 Nautical Miles

Score: Jeff 9; Susan 93

We jumped out of bed and got going around 7:00, both a little groggy. Today was a "put down some miles" kind of day. The water was calm, with no wind, no sun and cool -- a good day to travel. We put in an hour or so and noticed it looked pretty gray ahead. We debated: Is that rain? Fog? We hit it like a wall. Before we knew it we were deep in a pea-soupy mist that felt as dreamy as our early-morning mood. We flipped on the radar, running lights and had the chart-plotter already on, of course. We were on an easy, calm crossing with next to zero traffic so we weren't worried. It felt magical.

Jeff spotted something in the distance. After watching it a while we knew it was too tall for a marker. We decided it was probably a mast but we could not see the boat it was attached to at all. It was too deep in the mist. We continued to watch and decided it was probably approaching. Suddenly, about 100 yards ahead, the vague shape of a sailboat made itself known. It looked so eerie appearing out of the fog like that. I think the sailor was even more surprised than we were, as at least we could see his mast approaching. A friendly wave and we passed easily port to port.

The fog lifted and we putt-putt-putted through Beaverston Bay, the BEEEutiful Colin’s Inlet, across a glass-smooth Northern Georgian Bay until we got to Little Current. We dropped anchor close to town behind Picnic Island.

Tomorrow the plan is to pull into town first thing and take a slip. We have chores to do (laundry, provisioning, banking, boat chores etc). We will pull out late the next day. That way we get to spend two days in town and pay for only one night at port. Cheap, I know, but that's how we roll.