After a full 9 hours and 63 miles of motoring, we landed tonight in Britt/Bynge Inlet. For those of you who don’t know where this is, it’s in the middle of nowhere! I’m not sure what the original reason for this place is but Sam seems to recall it was related to lumber exportation, due to the relatively deep and protected harbour, during logging’s original heyday. Britt is on the north side of the inlet, and Bynge is on the south side, right across the river. Britt appears to have all the businesses....a 3 of them, and Bynge looks like it is houses and cottages.....maybe Britt’s suburb?? With nothing around here for miles it’s a bit comical to have 2 communities opposite each other.

We have a slip at the St. Almant’s Waterfront Inn/Marina/Grocery Store/Hardware Store/LCBO/Beer Store/Boat Rental/Bait Shop/Trailer Park/Restaurant (and probably a few other things we’re not aware of.) This counts as 1 of the 3 aforementioned businesses in Britt.
Originally we had a few anchorages picked out along the way but we managed to make it to them by noon. As the weather forecast was calling for some strong winds, waves, rain and possible thunderstorms (the usual forecast for this part of the world apparently) we decided to do a quick anchor drop, ferry Dinghy Dog to shore to water the local flora, put the dinghy back in the davits, choke down some lunch and then press on in the open bay for this port. We had been towing the dinghy for the past 3 days but I wanted it secured in the bay as the waves were getting a bit steep and it cuts down on our cruising speed. A half knot may not seem like much but over the course of an afternoon when you’re trying to potentially beat the weather, it could make a huge difference.

Sorry, no photo tonight as there is really nothing photo-worthy here, and I do have certain content standards I’m trying to uphold here. (I didn’t say they were high standards!) If the weather improves tomorrow we will head out on the open bay for the north shore. The wind is supposed to shift around to come out of the NE, so we may even get a chance to sail for the first time since leaving Lake Ontario. If we get some sun, a novel concept so far for Georgian Bay, we’ll do our best to find some Group of Sevenish type, typical Georgian Bay scenery and shoot off some photos to grace this blog site going forward.
Cheers.