Sunny Days: Last Stop in Canada

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.