Sailing the West Coast of Ontario!

We spent an extra day in Tobermory to relax and go over the boat carefully after the near gale we sailed through getting here.

Turning westward from Tobermory and around Cape Hurd, we sailed down Ontario's "west coast", as the local radio stations refer to this area.  Nice north wind helping us fly today!

The sky when we left Tobermory. The north wind cleared the clouds.

We made it into a rare anchorage near Oliphant for the night.  The next day, we continued south and saw hundreds of huge windmills, the largest nuclear generating station on Earth, the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, and into Kincardine.  We had time to walk around downtown a little, and had fish and chips at the Erie. Very quaint town!

The Kincardine Marina

The beach beside the marina in Kincardine

The Kincardine lighthouse

Sunday we made it to Goderich. More windmills all day.

Our view at the dock at Goderich's Maitland Valley Marina

Monday we had wind on the nose again and tacked until the winds died. We made it into Grand Bend - good thing the lake levels are up this year. One of the nicest sunsets we've seen so far! Windmills on land all day.

Sailing down the west coast was days of endless sand beaches and hundreds and hundreds of windmills. And beautiful sunsets!

Tuesday May 23, 2017 we motored in no wind to Sarnia.  One of our milestones: the first ever bridge we went under with our boat. In fact, it was two bridges, the twin Bluewater Bridges between Sarnia, Canada and Port Huron, USA.

Approaching Sarnia and the twin Bluewater Bridges

On our boat under the first bridge(s)

So far we sailed 260 nautical miles, and that is the end for the first of the Great Lakes, Lake Huron.