At Little Current Town Dock

This blog will chronicle our (Pat and Patty Anderson's)

cruising adventures on the Great Loop!

DAY 114 - July 23, 2017

When we arrived in Little Current yesterday, we registered for two nights at the Town Dock because our friends Flint and Leslie Firestone were coming in today in the afternoon.  So we had the morning free to do some more nothing! So this will be a short one today!

Patty showered and did laundry. I wrote the blog post for yesterday. I went up to the Food Land supermarket for tonic water for our G&Ts, and found that Canada does indeed  - as far as I can tell, in this one single store - have SOME kind of corned beef hash! Not canned corned beef hash but in a plastic tube sort of like Jimmy Dean Sausage - another product that seems unknown here, by the way. I spent some more time trying to figure out our route from Little Current to Mackinac Island, although we have still not settled exactly on our route and anchorages. 

In the afternoon, Flint and Leslie found us on our dock. They are staying with friends on a boat in the next marina over, Spider Bay. They came in their rain gear, as it had been raining on and off all day, and was cold, or as we remarked "It's a really mild day for December!" We had a great time visiting with them on our cockpit. They live on their C-Dory Venture 26 in Marathon, Florida, but have a Hitchhiker fifth wheel, which they towed here and have parked behind Spider Bay Marina. They have been traveling in the fifth wheel for quite awhile now, and I think Flint said they have towed about 12,000 miles on this trip. We are thinking in the next year or two we need to take a trip to the Keys. Maybe a road trip, maybe charter a boat, maybe rent a condo, but we need to go down there, since we will not be able to see the Keys on our Loop. 

We got this photo when their friends came to take them back to Spider Bay.

Flint, Pat, Leslie and Patty on a cold, gray July day in Little Current!

After the Firestones returned to Spider Bay, we took a last look at the SailFlow app on the iPad, which is a great tool that reports and forecasts winds from buoys in many different location. We did not like the winds we were seeing for tomorrow in the North Channel, so I went up to the office and extended for one more night. In the evening, there was thunder and a torrential downpour. We plugged in our little electric heater, turned it up to "high," had supper,  and were snug inside as we read our Kindles until we went to bed. We left the heater on all night! So much for "summer" in the North Channel!