July 26,2010

Well, we got up this morning full of vim and vigor for this was our departure day. After doing a number of last minute things, saying goodbye to people at South Bay Cove, we filled up our fuel tanks with diesel and left about 2:00 pm. Cruising out, we wondered what we would encounter. However, we were only going over to Penetang which was an hour and a half out where a 3 day meeting of people doing the Loop was taking place. We went to the wine and cheese at 6:00 where we met an number of people, some of who had been doing the Loop for 3 or more years - just plugging along. We exchanged some information pertinent to our travels down Lake Michigan and the river system and about Georgian Bay and its beauty and the rocks.