We woke up this morning to the call of the wild….and drained batteries.\u00a0 So making breakfast we started up the gen to have power and charge the batteries yet again.\u00a0 Enjoying our morning coffee on the back deck we watched two of the boats leave and wondered what the rush was all about.\u00a0 After some time we decided to pack up and head to Killarney which was about a 45 minute run.\u00a0 Short compared to those hours on the lakes.\u00a0 In Killarney we stopped at Mountain Lodge Marina.\u00a0 The attendants there commented on how slow the start was for the season this year.\u00a0 Only 2 boats stayed overnight and only 3 coming in for tonight.\u00a0 We filled up the diesel tank and headed to the corner store for a few added extras to spend the next 3 nights on the hook out in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n
We left Killarney and traveled about 30 minutes to Covered Portage Cove.\u00a0 A sweet cove with high bluffs all around.\u00a0 It is quiet here.\u00a0 At the entrance to the cove is a local known rock formation that resembles and called\u00a0Indian Head.\u00a0 I decided not to have the gen start up for lunch so instead we had a BBQ homemade muffin quiche with fruit and provolone cheese on the side .\u00a0 Turned out rather well on the grill.\u00a0 Then Low Voltage came off the davit and we took the dingy into the areas close to shore.\u00a0 The cove reads about 6 feet on the charts but the depth finder says it is 10 feet.\u00a0 Since we draft about 3.5 feet it is always nice when there is deeper water.\u00a0 The water levels up north are significantly higher than usual.\u00a0 The water temps this year are running around 70 degrees F.\u00a0 Chilly, yes!<\/p>\n
Taking the dingy to the end of the cove we found a trail to the top of the bluff where the mosquitos had us for lunch.\u00a0 Bug spray helped but not entirely.\u00a0 At the top of the bluff we could see Manitoulin Island and the waters around the island.\u00a0 We eventually lost the trail even though the information we read said it was a 2 hour hike.\u00a0 So we spent about a half hour trying to find the rest of the trail.\u00a0 In doing so we got separated.\u00a0 Aiden and I and then Scott .\u00a0 We had already made up a plan to make a loon sound if we did get separated.\u00a0 Scott has a tendency to wander away because he has a much quicker pace than Aiden and I.\u00a0 So as he was trying to find the trail in one direction, Aiden and I were trying to find it in another direction.\u00a0 Scott did have a cell phone with GPS so I wasn\u2019t worried about him.\u00a0 He realized that when he did call out for us we didn\u2019t answer.\u00a0 So he was worried that we had lost him.\u00a0 Which of course, we did.\u00a0 Aiden and I decided to go back to where we knew the marked trail was and figured Scott would meet up with us.\u00a0 So we walked slowly and enjoyed the view of the cove with its pines and black water.\u00a0 We kept calling out every once in awhile but not with the loon call anymore.\u00a0 So through the northern forest the calling of \u201cScott, Dad\u201d rang out every 5 minutes or so.\u00a0 I heard a very far off call back after about 40 minutes of \u201cI\u2019m coming\u201d.\u00a0 We did catch up with each other and found out what had happened.\u00a0 As Scott went off in his direction he ended up by the water and called us.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t answer so he knew we were out of range.\u00a0 His hope was that we didn\u2019t try to follow him.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t know exactly where he was so he climbed the bluff again to get his bearing.\u00a0 That is when he discovered that he had somehow hiked to the next bluff.\u00a0 So back down he went hoping again that we didn\u2019t follow.\u00a0 Once he was in the valley between the 2 bluffs that is when he heard our faint call to him!<\/p>\n
So now the boys are out fishing again.\u00a0 I\u2019m enjoying the sound of the gen again booting up the run down batteries from the day.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure we are PO\u2019ing the sail boats here in the cove.\u00a0 3 hours is a long time in complete quiet with a gen running.\u00a0 It is what it is!<\/p>\n
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FYI for our non-boater friends – “on the hook” merely means to be anchored!<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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