When we set out yesterday, our plan was to head for Thessalon today and then on Thursday make the crossing to Drummond Island where we would clear customs. As we were visiting with Betty and Leo last night, John and Lisa of Distant Voyager hailed Dues Paid. They know each other since both couples live in Punta Gorda, Florida, and they both spend time in the North Channel each summer. We spoke with John and he invited us to travel with them on Thursday directly to Drummond Island since it was supposed to be a nice day with winds out of the Southeast. For the past several days, we have been heading directly into a west wind so the change sounded good to us and we stayed at Long Point Cove another day.
In the morning, we explored in the dinghy, hunted blueberries (found a few nearly ripe ones), and fished. Just before noon at exactly the same time, Gale and Maureen each had a fish on the line – two big Northerns! Back at Blue Heron we enjoyed a fantastic lunch of our first pancakes made with North Channel blueberries. Mid-afternoon we moved the boat into the shallow pool at our anchorage and Gale pulled the big boat with the dinghy into less than two feet of water. Here we scrubbed the hull and removed the scum that had accumulated – mostly in the saltwater during the first few weeks of our trip. After cleaning Blue Heron we moved her back into about four feet of water for the night, took baths ourselves in the co-o-o-o-o-o-l- d waters of the North Channel, and went fishing again. Gale caught another Northern, but since it wasn’t as big as the others we’d been catching, he released it.
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