Snug Anchor at Croker Island

Wednesday – today we cruised from Long Point Harbour to Croker Island. We passed through the Whalebacks and through Little Detroit. As we approached the anchorage, we could not be certain of the depths so we had planned to take down the dinghy and check the entrance with our dinghy. At that time a small (18’ Hobie Sports Cat) sailed past and told us to follow him. So, hoping that he didn’t have a previous run in with some other Trawler and wanted revenge by running us over some rocks – we followed. He took us around the other side of the island that had maybe 5 ft of water. After we anchored he came over and showed us some great anchorages through-out the North Channel. He cruises all over the country on this 18’ Hobie Cat – the platform turns into a tent while at anchorage. Very nice gentlemen and he got us into an anchorage that we would never have tried and we were all by ourselves for the day.

We stern tied the boat to a rock on shore and the boys enjoyed jumping of the pink granite rocks. Gaye and myself did our ‘mini-run’ around/up/down the rocks and enjoyed a swim/snorkel with the boys. In the evening we played our nightly game – tonight being Mexican Train – Aaron came away with the victory.