After anchoring with 13 other boats at Eagle Island we come
into Blind River –storms are due at night around 3am –but for the day we have
the calmest waters we have had to date.
Blind River is 35 miles north of Drummond Island where we will check
back into the USA, it was a big lumber community until the mid-1940’s owned by
the Eddy family. This is the northern-most
point of our trip and it is the first time we have broken into a sweat. In analyzing our Canadian run and decided the scenery was
as different as we have ever seen—the busy Georgian Bay with its northern
pines, blue water, and granite boulders topped with cottages -- the isolated North
Channel with its evergreen trees, blue water, and rocks. Weather-wise, this is where you want to spend
your summer—just perfect cool nights high of 75-80 during the day and usually
with a breeze. We lost our Looper friends--the only people you see on the North
Channel are in the crowded anchorages or in the marinas—all friendly locals. We
biked into Blind River and about the only landmark of interest besides the
covered silo and churches is the LCBO—these are the Canadian liquor stores, all
government owned, very expensive, usually a limited selection, and literally in
every fish camp along the waterway.
They like their Country Music up here-station 100.7 out of Little
Current broadcasts widely and plays a lot of Canadian County stars with some of
Nashville stars with a good portion of country oldies rolled in, they always
think it is really cool when we tell them we are from Nashville.
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| Tavern in Blind River-notice the separate entrances for men and women |
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| Church Row |
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| Gourmet Poutine? |
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| Silo was used to burn the lumber bi-products so it had a wrought iron bonnet |
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| Plotting our route for tomorrow |
