Day 347: Saturday, August 17, 2013

Port to Port: Killarney, Ontario

Underway: 0:00 am      Motor Off: 0:00 pm      Miles Traveled: 0     Stayed At: Marina

First Things First: First time seeing wild otters playing in the water; first boat in movie.

Mile to Mile: Since we got most of our boat projects done yesterday, today was a day for rest and relaxation (and a long walk and eating and calling home and docktails and a movie).

I started the day early walking to the other side of town to get some amazing hot cinnamon rolls at the Gateway Restaurant (one didn’t make it back to the boat) and trying to finish getting the blog caught up. One problem with the internet here is that they only give you a limited amount of data – only 70 megabyes – which doesn’t last very long when you are uploading 20 pictures per blog post at 1.5 megabytes each. I ran out twice yesterday and had them reset it. A pain in the butt. This is how they ration their bandwidth among all their guests. No Netflix movies here.

After a painful few hours waiting for pictures to load I finally got caught up and joined Cindy, Eddy and Linda for a long walk with a detour to the Red Bus for another round of fresh fish and chips. Killarney is small so we were pretty much able to see the whole town in less than 10,000 steps. It felt good to walk, though, after all of our anchoring out. After getting back, I took the computer down to the Sportman’s Lodge to use their much better internet – 5x faster and unlimited and open – and called home on the computer – GMG, Sarah  and Jim. I also downloaded some charts for Michigan onto the computer. I was a happy camper.

I finished just in time to head back for 5 pm docktails – only about half of us left here but we had fun solving the worlds problems (not). After another enjoyable gathering, Cindy and I and Eddy and Linda wandered back over to the fast internet and called their parents to say hi. They hadn’t been able to talk for a long time so it was a wonderful way to catch up. We hope to meet all of them some day. We finished our R&R day watching a DVD – Captain Ron – on the computer. It is a must see movie for seasoned Loopers – you can relate to the Captain Ron-isms and it is, after all, about a boat and on the water. Five stars.

Tomorrow we probably split up for a while – we are going with Carina about 40 miles to an anchorage by Amedroz Island and others are going to Baie Finn – a beautiful fiord with a small sheltered pool at the end. Hopefully we get to connect up again – reunions are always fun to look forward to.