North Star on the Great Loop Journey: Bell Cove in the Bay of Islands

Preparing for the trip

Captain Jerry has been making the final preparations to North Star, our 32 foot Cape Island down east trawler. We are anxious to leave our landlubber lives behind and begin our long awaited journey around the Great Circle. Join us as we travel 10, 000 kilometers: through the historic Trent Severn Waterway; the pristine waters of Georgian Bay; the North Channel of lake Huron; and hop from beach to beach on lake Michigan. We will visit Chicago and begin our trek along the rivers: Illinois; upper Mississippi; Ohio; Cumberland: Tennessee; Tenn-Tom Waterway and the Black Warrior. We will have transited through 68 locks at this juncture. We have chosen the inner route from Mobile Alabama to Tarpon Springs Florida and the shorter Ocheechobee Waterway to reach the East coast of Florida. We will skip over to the Bahamas to wait out the winter before heading North on the Atlantic Inter Coastal Waterway.
The 10 years of researching and planning are finally at an end and we invite you to come along on our adventure.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Bell Cove in the Bay of Islands

We are in the Bay of Islands anchored in Bell Cove (N46 02.676' and W081 55.396'). We spent the day exploring the shoreline trail, trolling in the dinghy and swimming. We had a nice campfire last night complete with a lightning show over the La Cloche Mountains to the North of the cove. There are 4 of us anchored here but the protection from the North West wind is not favourable and of course that is what is blowing now. We are staying until this afternoon when the wind should subside.
We met some folks from Port Dover in Little Current so we missed the cruisers pot luck dinner. We stayed at the town dock all evening chatting with all the boaters, it was a pleasant evening. little Current is a quaint little town and has all the amenities that boaters are looking for not too far from the town dock. It is quite busy after the swing bridge opens, every hour on the hour, but it calms down in the evening.
We will go back to get more provisionsin Little Current before we head towards the Benjamin Islands. The internet access is not good here so I will post pictures when we go to Little Current.