Fortunately, my heart didn’t stop, and Suze joined me. The only way to find out was by making a full-gainer commitment off the swim platform. It was one of those heart-stopping plunges when a toe-dip wouldn’t do enough to convince you the water was warm. The southern pool is rimmed by pink granite and topped with pines. You can’t come too close as it shallows quickly, but the beach is easily reached by dinghy. The north pool, the largest, features a good sand beach for swimming. The Croker Island anchorage is well protected from all quarters. An American Hatteras named Sassy was nosed up to the shore, and a steel sloop, was anchored out in the deeper water of the pool. It would have taken another 20 minutes for us to bring Bay Spirit into the Benjamin basin, but with everyone pooped from a long day, we decided to set the hook in the inner anchorage at Croker Island.Īs it was early in the season, there were just two other boats sharing the anchorage. Navigating here isn’t treacherous, but it does require your full attention to keep the boat lined up in the channel. Two hours took us to the Sow and Pigs – the rocky islets guarding the southern entrance to the Benjamin’s. The wind was blowing 18 to 20 knots out of the northwest but settled down and by the time we slipped our lines the breeze was manageable.īecause we wanted to anchor at a reasonable hour, and be headed in a direction that would put the Bay of Islands, Baie Fine and Killarney within easy daily sailing distances, we chose the Benjamin Islands as our first anchorage. We arrived at the CYC base in Gore Bay on Manitoulin Island shortly before noon. Most Canadians, and more than a few Americans, who know about the Groups painters associate them with Ontario’s Algonquin Park, but the artists ranged far and wide, painting in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic. It was easy to sail and had a good name – Bay Spirit. The Hunter had a big forepeak with a double berth and all kinds of stowage space along with a big aft cabin – a double berth again. We chartered a Hunter 35.6 from Canadian Yacht Charters (CYC). Growing up in Ontario, I spent a large part of my school years checking out the prints of contorted trees and wicked westerly storms while awaiting my audience with Principal Frank for my infraction du jour. And second, I wanted to revisit and view the region in the same the way the iconic landscape painters of the Group of Seven, did three-quarters of a century ago. First, I wanted to introduce Bob and Suze to the pleasures of cruising. But on this trip, I had a new agenda – actually, two agendas. Hundreds of trees have been sacrificed for stories about the channel, and I’ve contributed my fair share. We were setting out to explore the North Channel – that magical stretch of Lake Huron between Manitoulin Island and the mainland of Northern Ontario west of Georgian Bay. We sold Bob on the idea of cruising by telling him a boat was just like a cottage where the scenery (and grass) could be changed on a whim. But while Bob seemed content to sit and watch the grass grow beneath his Adirondack chair, Suze was set to go exploring once their daughter Amanda became a teenager and wanted to avoid them completely. Devout cottagers, they have a beautiful, century-old log cabin on the Bruce Peninsula. In theory that was not doable.A version of this article appeared in the Buyer's Guide 2023 of Great Lakes Scuttlebutt magazine.įor years I’d been suggesting that Bob and Suze come cruising with us. “Look, if I would have left, I would have left prior to the original race in 2016. Even if he’s convicted, 80% of voters say that Trump should still be able to be president.Īs he was boarding his plane to fly to North Carolina from Georgia, Trump told Politico that he planned on staying in the running for re-election even if were to be convicted. “It’s a horrible thing for this country,” Trump said, speaking of the indictment, “ the only good thing about it is it’s driven my poll numbers way up.” A CBS News poll found that Trump remains ahead of other Republican challengers in the polls, and that Republican primary voters are more worried that the indictment is a political attack against Trump instead of a national security risk. Still, Trump remains one of the frontrunners for the 2024 presidential election, even saying during his Georgia speech that the latest indictment is increasing his polling numbers. “Nothing happened to Crooked Joe with all that … He has so many classified documents … This is a sick nest of people that needs to be cleaned out immediately,” Trump added. The former president also called out President Joe Biden and Mike Pence, who were found to have classified documents in their offices and homes, but were not charged because they returned the documents to officials once they were discovered.
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