Georgian Bay

Cousin Ted and I decided to head up to Georgian Bay on Thursday for some fishing. As far as the fishing goes it was a disaster. Caught nothing! At least we were prepared. Had a cooler full of food and drinks. We went to a place near Honey Harbour. There's a cottage rental place there which also rents boats, it's called Hall's Cottages. Everything is right on the harbour and the cottage rates are pretty good, though there is no seclusion. So we got up there at 8am, rented a boat and were off for the day.

As we set off we got a photo of one of the cottages they rent.

Slow ride out of the harbour.

One thing we did do out there was practice some basic navigation skills. I have charts of the area and we used landmarks and chart symbols to navigate through the channel, some inner bays, a couple marinas, and out into open water...where we marooned ourselves on Doom Island. Actually it's a rock with two trees on it and is too small to have a name so we named it ourselves! Stopped here in this patch of rocks, went ashore and tried fishing from here. Ted had a bite and got it real close to shore but this is Doom Island, and the fish got away...

Such a lonely, desperate time on Doom Island.

Crayfish hunting on Doom Island. Caught a few to use as bait but no luck still. This is after all...Doom Island!!!

Poor cousin Ted...stranded on...Doom Island!!! Ya, I should mention, poor cousin Ted got something of a nasty burn out here, despite going through 12 litres of sun block. But we should have expected as much. This is after all...Doom Island!!!

We still had a great time. In total we spent about 10 hours on the lake. Ted took the helm for a while too. Gave him a few simple instructions and he was boating in no time. We'll make a skipper of you yet, young lad!

So off we went, leaving Doom Island behind us and back into the bays and harbours. Stopped of at a couple marinas, got more drinks, checked out the local talent, refueled, and finally went back to Hall's cottages.