Started the day with a morning dinghy ride to explore the many inlets in the river. Tied up to a rock and went ashore on one of the islands. Walked on the distinctive pink granite rocks and discovered blueberry bushes, juniper bushes and pine trees. Back in the dinghy we covered more territory to see a large turtle sunning himself on a small rock, loons floating around and diving and of course the ever present conference of seagulls. Left the Bad River around noon, following the small craft channel to our next anchorage. Planned to anchor behind Burnt Island in Beaverstone Bay but got there early and decided to continue on into Collins Inlet. At 2:14pm Quinita sailed her 500th nautical mile!!!! The entrance into Collin’s Inlet looks very challenging on the charts but we found it to be well marked and with our shallow draft (3.5 feet with the centerboard up) we had no problem at all. Once in the depth runs from rocky shore to rocky shore so navigating was easy. We anchored in Second Bay in 4 feet of water (put the rudders up so we only draw 1.5 ft). Sure is nice to have that flexibility. The water temperature was in the 80s, although not as clean as the rest of Georgian Bay. We went for a skinny dip then rinsed off with HOT Georgian Bay proper water from the sun showers.
Todays log: 23.8 nm, season total: 360.7nm
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