Leg 15 of our 2022 cruise up north
(to read my last post, Hike up to Casson Peak at Maryanne Cove, click here)
The loon calls echo here it’s so quiet! We can also hear them flap their wings.
We’ve spent two days exploring some of the little channels and bays in McGregor Bay via dinghy. We’ve never been here before, so everything here is new to us.
McGregor Bay’s waters are extra complicated, with hundreds of islands and narrows that look very similar to each other. As we dinghied around or paddled around in our SUPs we’d come to what looked like a dead end… until just a few feet away a narrows would appear and lead us to another wide open bay. One could easily get lost here.
Without GPS, it would be super tricky… it also wasn’t even officially charted until about the time of GPS, too. As a member of the Great Lakes Cruising Club, I’ve got access to hand drawn charts of some of the tricky spots that cruisers used decades before GPS. Even with our fancy electronics (and Priorities really isn’t all that fancy), we didn’t venture in here until I had access to their proprietary information. I also bought a paper chart as a backup just in case, and to help with overall situational awareness.
Yesterday there was little wind in the afternoon, so we motored to get in here. I was kinda okay with that, though, since that makes it easier for Kristin to see rocks and shallow spots as I slowly drove Priorities through some of trickier spots.
All the sun, light wind, and warm air these last few days have brought water temperatures up. McGregor has very protected waters, so it would be warmer anyway… right now it’s 74 degrees.
Tomorrow we’re probably headed farther east again, maybe Killarney or Covered Portage Cove.
Wonderful picture of the “Super calm morning” !