We Departed Carlton Bay around 11am due to a heavy fog. When we woke up to leave, Lauren noted the fog and said “we should just go back to sleep and wait it out.” Great! I am always down for sleeping in!
Lauren had also checked the weather for the day- it was ok in the morning and early afternoon, but rain was expected around 3pm. Since we had scouted out our next location, we knew we didn’t have far to go. I had mentioned Government Bay, and we really had a hard time finding it on the charts. It is a part of the Les Cheneaux Islands, and is just south of Cedarvile and Hessel, which are both popular ports along the way. Cedarville just finished the weekend of their antique and wood boat show, which is one of the largest in the country.
Knowing we had a short hop made it easier to go back to bed for a bit. We finally got going after taking Frank to shore around 9:45am, and motored toward our destination. We only went 17.6 miles to the next stop.
Government Bay is sandwiched between La Salle Island and Hill Island. Again we had to maneuver in a shallow and rocky passage between a couple of other islands to get to where we wanted to be.
We found the bay, and saw there were a few other boats anchored. There was a very large yacht and a few other boats anchored on the north part, and one other boat on the south end where we came in. We decided to stay on the south side, as we like to not be near others, and it was closer to shore for Frank. The shore I speak of is an island called Government Island (duh! gov’t bay!) and is un-inhabited, but has some camping areas for the adventurous types.
We explored the island a bit with Frank, and ended up going back to the boat before the rain. This was not an exciting evening, as it did rain a little, we made dinner, and that’s it! Nothing to story tell about, and nothing happened, just an easy and lazy day on the water.
Tomorrow we plan on getting to Mackinac Island early afternoon and checking it out. We do have a friend joining us for our first visitor of the trip! He is staying at St. Ignace (west of Mackinac Island) and will be bringing his boat over to hang out with us.
Sorry for the delay in updates, but I will again try to keep up!