Sept 22, Cockburn Island, ON

This feels like an Indian Summer, that time in the fall after a cold front goes through, when the weather gets to be like summer again. Today was beautiful! Almost no wind, beautiful sunshine, temperatures in the 40’s overnight and in the low 70’s during the day.

We moved out of Little Current about 9 am and motored west in deep water with only a few shoal areas to avoid and not many granite rocks with which to concern ourselves. We went by the Benjamin Islands which appeared “pink” from the color of the granite as we passed by. There are some beautiful anchorages among these islands and we hope to return next year to experience them for ourselves.

Approaching the Benjamin Islands

South Benjamin

Beautiful anchorage for next summer. Empty now.

We took advantage of the calm seas and kept moving west toward Drummond Island and the good old USA. We covered 60 miles and by 6 pm we were concerned about the coming darkness so we ducked in a small harbor and tied up for the night in the settlement of Tolsmaville (population in summer is about 200; population in winter is said to be 2) on Cockburn Island, still in Ontario, Canada. We are about 20 miles from Drummond Island, Michigan.

Cockburn Island is "out there".

KOKOMO II at sunset

The docks here are new and substantial and are behind a large concrete breakwater. We feel secure but there is not much here. Tried the power when we arrived and could not get it to work, so we ran the generator. We did have 30 amp power overnight because a very helpful dockmaster came and turned on the breakers about 9 pm. He said he was sorry not to get here earlier but he only gets few boats here every week and thinks it is because they are pretty remote. We are glad to have the power. No internet or cel phone coverage. We have not seen any other people here at all. We do have satellite TV and are comfortable on the boat.