Eating fish at the Bus

Tuesday – Today we’ll stay in Covered Portage for another night. After having breakfast, we headed out for Killarny to check out the town and enjoy some of their famous white fish from the “Bus”. The dinghy ride was a bit long with the distance being around 3 miles – using our 15 year old Evinrude 4hp outboard and an Avon 3.10 Rib (time to buy Gaye a bigger outboard for her birthday – I’m sure she’ll be excited about that present).

Killarny was not very exciting with mainly marinas along the channel. We walked the town and then stopped at the “Bus” for some white fish. We ended up eating with an older couple that is anchored on a motor-sailer next to us in Covered Portage. They spend their summers on the boat that he built from steel a number of years back. They just slowly move from anchorage to anchorage through-out the North Channel. We tend to be the only non-sailboat when we are anchored so we usually have many of the sailers dinghying over to our boat to compliment us on the looks of our boat. The saying is that trawler owners are just sailors in retirement.

We did see the “Ford” boat leaving the Killarny channel – apparently the boat is around 130ft long and has a Ford Blue hull. Another sailor in our anchorage told us that they were looking for fuel but the Killarny marinas did not have enough – so off they went. Pretty impressive boat.

Pretty windy today with 20kts winds for most of the day.

Internet Access: No Internet. The Verizon cell phone service works if the boat is pointing to the West – otherwise, no server.