Navigator on the Loop: Beautiful Georgian Bay and Devon Falls.

After enjoying our rest in Midland it was again time to move on. This time we are excited to experience the beauty of Georgian Bay.

Our first night was at the legendary Henry's Fish Restaurant. Henry's is located on Frying Pan Island in the Sans-Souci area. The only way to get there is by boat or float plane. Georgian Bay Airways flies people into Henry's, drops them off and leaves, returning with more people later and returning the original passengers to Midland or Parry Sound.

After enjoying a family style meal of pickerel, walleye to Minnesotans, we took a dinghy ride to an anchorage we knew other loopers have used. Although it was beautiful we decided to check out the anchorage recommended by our dock mates in Midland. The following morning we traveled about five miles east to an anchorage in Port Rawson Bay. It was an absolutely beautiful place, so beautiful we stayed a second night.

Following our dock mates' advice we dinghied to a waterfall about five miles away. Wow, the trees growing out of the rocks, the water, the sky, it is all just gorgeous! When we arrived at the last lake before the waterfall, we encountered some people paddling a fishing boat because their engine wouldn't start. We got one dinghy on each side of them and "escorted" them back to their dock. While helping them, they told us exactly how to navigate the narrow channel back to the waterfall. That advice was greatly appreciated. After navigating the narrow, shallow and very rocky channel we beached the dinghies and walked the shoreline a short distance to the waterfall.

Now from previous blogs you may remember that Mark likes to jump off of things into the water. While enjoying the beauty of the waterfall, I mentioned that Mark would jump off the waterfall if he knew where to jump. An attractive young lady overheard my comment and offered to show Mark where to jump. After setting her beer down she and Mark walked the rocks to the waterfall and she made a beautiful dive into the pool below. Mark, following orders, didn't dive but jumped into the pool. Upon exiting the water the girl introduced herself as Devon. Therefore we nicknamed the place Devon Falls. Good luck to anyone that tries to find Devon Falls!

After two beautiful nights at anchor we again needed to move along. This time our destination was Parry Sound, where we contacted Ernie and Nancy Klink, friends from Fort Myers Beach, who live on the water at Parry Sound. While waiting for the bridge to open we visited with Ernie on his dock. After work Nancy and Ernie met us at the marina and took us to a much needed grocery store and Canadian Tire. Canadian Tire is much more than a tire store, kind of like Fleet Farm in Minnesota. The Klinks were hoping we would stay another night in Parry Sound but again we needed to move on. We really appreciate the visit we had with them and look forward to seeing them in Florida again this coming winter.

Hopewell Island was our next anchorage overnight. Again we dinghied around Hopewell Bay and found a narrow channel between walls of granite rock. Bustard Island was our next anchorage and just as beautiful as all the previous anchorages. Leaving there was like an infinity pool, the sky and water seemed to be joined together.

We were really happy we traveled the back way through Beaverstone Bay and Collins Inlet on the way to Killarney.

Killarney and Baie Fine will be the next blog.