June 15, 2018 - Tobermory to Little Current

Good day on the water.  Headed out of Tobermory in the morning with flat beautiful seas.  We enjoyed this town with all it's shops, ice cream, restaurants and great people!

 Bye, bye Tobermory!  

 Great day on the water!

Not sure if you can see the yellow but it's pollen.  Next picture is more.  We have been plagued with pollen for several days.  It was all over the boat and inside too.  Yellow dust, yuke!

Little Current is a very small town with very little to do, actually one street.  The only restaurant open out of two was the Anchor Inn and Restaurant.  We had fish tacos and they were really good. Tomorrow we head out to another port!

June 13 & 14, 2018 - Tobermory

June 13, 2018

Tobermory is a great little town!  The harbormaster told us that come July and August people will be elbow to elbow all along the waterfront.  It's a real tourist town. We will hang out here waiting for our next weather window.

Jonathon Livingston is the marina office "guard bird".  This bird will not allow another bird except for one come anywhere near the office area.  He has been around for years.

You can see the bad weather rolling in.

Seas are picking up.

June 14, 2018

This weekend they are having their Chi-Cheemaun festival.  These boaters come in every year for this event.  Great bunch of people with a lot of good information for our next stops.  Wish we could stay but we have a good weather window so off we go tomorrow to Little Current.

June 12, 2018 - Meaford to Tobermory

First thing in the morning we put up the "tree".  Josh wanted to have radar for the open water.  The previous owner told us that the higher you get the tree up the easier is goes and he was right.  Not bad at all with the three of us working together.

Bye, bye Meaford!  Meaford was a very small town, nothing really to do, but a nice marina to stop at.

What a great day on the water!

Josh and Barry keeping busy!

Teak sleeping.

Our day started out warm with high 60's but as the day went on the temperature dropped into the low 50's.  Brrr!  We all moved inside.

Check out the depth!

Welcome to Tobermory!

Large car ferry to South Baymouth

Tourist town - glass bottom boats and dive boats!

This is what you can see under our boat in the marina.  The water is so clear!

June 11, 2018 - Big Chute to Meaford

Today is our big day!  We will be doing the Big Chute.

 Last trade is waiting on the blue line.

Big Chute Marina.  We were on the t-head for the night.  

 Here it comes to get us!

We made it!

As we got closer to our last lock (Lock 45), we got a little confused.  Several channels merged together and we had to stop and really think about where we were supposed to go.  Very confusing!  Right before the last lock there were some nice marinas.  If we only knew we would have done the Big Chute yesterday and stayed at one of these.

Lock 45 was the smallest lock on the TSW and we locked through with another boat.  The other boat's dinghy was nudging against our hull.  Wish we were able to do this lock alone.  We talked about some very narrow channels that we had to go through earlier but the ones after lock 45 were something else!  Nothing that I read prepared us for this.  Very, very small and twisty with current!  All eyes were on deck!!!!!!!

Open water here we are!