2005 Canadian Trip

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2005 Canadian Trip

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Gray’s Reef Light

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Mackinac Bridge to East

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Mackinac Bridge north end

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2 nights at Mackinac Is.

A seat at the butterfly farm.

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A view of harbor from fort

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Lighthouses along the north shore

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Trip to Whitefish Point

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Auto Tour

We took a car along the southern shore of Lake Superior to Whitefish Point to visit the Shipwreck Museum. At the Museum you get a good feel of what the early mariners had to go through.

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Edmund Fitzgerald Bell

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A boat named Day Star

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Drummond Is to Meldrum Bay

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Vidal Bay to Gore Bay

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Gore Bay to Little Current

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Hawberry Festival Parade

• When the Europeans came to the Little Current area they had some very hard winters and the Indians showed them how to process Hawberries that ended up saving the lives of the early European settlers

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Excursion to Wikwemikong by car

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Driver and Spouse

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Overlook into Manitowaning Bay

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West End of Little Current from Micro Towers

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Little Current to Eagle Island

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Sunrise in Little Current over Goat Island

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Laid Back in Waubuno Channel

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High hills north of Waubuno Channel

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Sow and Pigs SE of the Benjamins

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West Side of South Benjamin

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Sunset at Eagle Island’s Anchorage

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Pre-sunrise at

Eagle Island Anchorage

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Beating west on McBean Channel

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McBean Channel at Oak Point

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Oak Point in the Back

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Heading towards Hawkins Is.

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Little Detroit Passage

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Past Narrow, Little Detroit Passage

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Little Detroit to Whalesback

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Just what is under the water?

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Beardrop Harbor

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Impossible Passage

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Boats at Anchor in Beardrop

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Beardrop to Blind River

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Part of Path to Blind River

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Blind River to De Tour

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Grounding at WP7

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Lessons Learned

• The dark blue area is not always at least 6 feet deep.

• Maybe marked channels in the dark blue the only safe spots.

• Don’t go to De Tour as it is not a port of entry.

• Drummond Island is the port of entry and you must show up in person at the Drummond Yacht Haven. The fuel dock usually has room if no one is monitoring VHF.

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DeTour-Drummond-DeTour

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Note:Drummond Island Yacht Haven is the place that you must show up in person when re-entering the US.

Do not go to De Tour without first going to Drummond Island Yacht Haven on your way back into the US.

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St. Ignace Tall Ship

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St. Ignace to Beaver Is.

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Bridge from East in Morning Sun

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Green Back up Plan

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Took Back up Plan a Shorter Trip

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Manistique to Washington Is.

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Detroit Harbor at sunset

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• Stayed too long in Washington Harbor and wind then switched to the north at 20 knots so we got out of the harbor just after sunset.

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Ellison Bluff

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The End of the Five Week Canadian Trip