Fogbound - Georgian Bay - Ontario -Small Boats Magazine

 

The Georgian Bay archipelago - Lake Huron is one of those magic spots (like the Boundary Waters) that I expect never to see.  Of course I'm stuck with the Penobscot and Muscongus Bays in Maine.  But there's a lot of fun to be had in surfing the web.

Fogbound - Small Boats Magazine

Fogbound

The Bustard Islands of Georgian Bay

Written by  TOM PAMPERIN

From Issue  SEPTEMBER 2018

The east side of the Bustard Islands was all shoals and breakers, with a broad band of granite shelves and outcroppings stretching half a mile or more offshore. Typical for Georgian Bay, I knew, where the safest routes run well outside to avoid the rocks, or follow the well-buoyed passages of the charted small-craft route that traverses Georgian Bay’s eastern shoreline.

Here in the Thirty Thousand Islands region, only kayaks and canoes—or a sail-and-oar cruiser with her board and rudder up—can manage to sneak through to the shore in most places. And even boats like my as-yet-unnamed Don Kurylko–designed Alaska beach cruiser have to pick their way carefully. Passing through the northern end of the Bustard Islands on my approach from the west, I had seen a few cottages and sailed past half a dozen larger boats in the main anchorage between Tie Island and Strawberry Island. Out here on the east side of the Bustards I was completely on my own.