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.























Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The end of Georgian Bay

Collins Inlet

Trees growing out of the cliffs in Collins Inlet

Killarny Provincial Park Anchorage

Mama Bear
We made the 18 mile crossing of open water in very favourable weather. The rest of our travel yesterday was on Collins Inlet which is a long narrow waterway that winds its way through cliffs and forest.  The rock is becoming pinkish in colour with trees growing right out of the cliffs. 
We saw a mother bear with two cubs this time. There is a lot of deer flies (stouts) and horse flies around and of course the mosquitoes are thick at dusk.
We anchored just off Killarny Provincial Park (N45 59.519' and W081 22.754') and swam ashore to explore the rocky shore. There are lots of blueberries but they are not quite ready.
Today we will go 6 miles into Killarny to reprovision and to stay at the many anchorages around.  This concludes our leg of Georgian Bay as Killarny is the beginning of the North Channel.
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