July 18, 2017 Collins Inlet, last night in Georgian Bay

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We left the French River by 8am so as to be out in the Bay before the winds came up.  As per usual, you have to come out pretty far to avoid all the shoals.  This particular grouping of rocks and small islands was called “The Chickens.”
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Shimmering seas behind us.  No real fetch to deal with. 
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Getting closer to La Cloche Mountain Range as we head into Collins Inlet.
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Most of the inlet is boardered by bluffs.
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Skinny passages have become de rigueur.
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The narrow inlet carried on for about 10 miles. 
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At the base of this bluff were posts from a wharf built long ago for the logging industry. 
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Remnants of 100 year old posts.
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Lots of beaver houses along the way.
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Still good water in the middle of this channel.
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Lots of sheer cliffs along the way.
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About the only wild life we have seen.  I’m amazed at the paucity of birds.  No eagles, no osprey, only one heron in the past 5 days. 
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River of rock.
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We anchored by this bluff behind Island 58, aka Keyhole Island, formerly known as Turning Island.  Seems like an excessive number of aliases.  
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Took a really long paddle board trip into the innards of the bay to climb up this bluff.  The two dots in the water in the upper right are our boat and C’est le bon.
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Finally found the elusive common blueberries of Georgian Bay!
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Hal out sailing his dinghy “The Swallow.”
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Bob gets a turn.
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Bob and his toys.
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Trekking upwind.
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Leaving a small wake heading downwind.
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And returning to our boat. 
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Oops, forgot to reset the tracking this morning, so apparently we went over land to get to Collins Inlet. 
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Where we are in Georgian Bay, only 5 miles away from entering the North Channel.  If you enlarge this picture you can see the French River coursing down from an inland lake.  Again, the route of earlier explorers and traders. 
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Where we are in the world of Great Lakes. 
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Ended the day with another fun round of songs.  Hal reminds us of a combination of our friends Paul Whitehead and Michael McIntyre. 

5 thoughts on “July 18, 2017 Collins Inlet, last night in Georgian Bay”

  2. Enjoying the blog immensely!

    Young Gabe and I took all the b&b trash to the dump today. Overhead were two eagles circling the landfill with their friends, all the other birds! The pair of eagles were spectacular. Sadly no pictures as I can drive and snap pictures at the same time.

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