Lay Day in Killarney

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

cruising adventures on the Great Loop!

DAY 112 - July 21, 2017

Today was a very welcome lay day, a day off from cruising. We just stayed put at our anchorage behind Pine Island in Killarney and relaxed. No track today because we didn't travel, no pictures because I didn't take any!

What do you do when you have nothing your have to do? Patty read one entire book on her Kindle. The first thing I did after breakfast was to get out Skipper Bob and Garmin Blue Chart with Active Captain on the iPad and try to figure out where we would stay each night on the North Channel. A couple of days in Little Current on Manitoulin Island in a marina, then Hotham Island anchorage, Sanford Island anchorage, West Grant Island anchorage, De Tour Village  (back in U.S.) at a marina, then Marquette Bay anchorage, and on to Mackinaw Island! That's the plan anyway, we will see what the weather lets us actually do!

After that, I was going to go swimming but it seemed too windy almost all day. I took a PTA bath on the swim step. I did my laundry.  I took Baxter to shore a couple of times and took a couple of recreational paddles in the kayak, one with dog and one without! I paddled over to the sailboat that has been anchored up the channel most of the time we have been here, where I met Nils, a most interesting character!

Nils has a 22 foot sailboat named Norway. I am going to go out on a limb here and take a wild guess that he is Norwegian! Nils is from Montreal, and trailered his sailboat to Killarney. When he got to the anchorage, he realized he had left all his clothes in his van at the marina, he had nothing but a swimsuit and a teeshirt! We chatted about a wide variety of topics while I was bobbing in the kayak alongside his sailboat. Like us, he was going to go to Covered Portage Cove to anchor, but the guy at the marina steered him to our little anchorage, just as the lady at the LCBO had steered us here. I think we were both glad to be here. Nils had been watching large yacht after large yacht head into Covered Portage Cove, and we both thought the serenity and beauty of our little anchorage beat the living daylights out of bumping around among a bunch of large yachts!

Patty and I had the smoked whitefish from Herbert Fisheries with crackers for lunch, and fried one of the two trout fillets we purchased for dinner, both of which were excellent. We still have another trout fillet and a whitefish filled, both vacuum packed, in our freezer. 

I have been reading a book entitled The Rabbi's Gift by Chuck Gould on my Kindle. Chuck is the former editor of Nor'Westing Magazine, and had the good sense to publish my article on the rise and fall of various iterations of C-Dory ownerships in Nor'Westing in 2011. I have learned the rest of the story, and could update the article, but Nor'Westing is no longer being published. Anyway, I spent a few hours before going to bed reading Chuck's book, and I am enjoying it a lot!

So that is how you spend pretty much an entire day when you have nothing you have to do!