Bridal Veil Falls and Gore Bay, ON



Along the way other Loopers have mentioned that they have stopped during their travels on a particular day for lunch and then continued to their destination.  We have always set our course and didn't stop until we were safely tied up for the day, until today.  

About halfway to Gore Bay there was Mudge Bay on Manitoulin Island.  Down in this bay there was a destination called Bridal Veil Falls right outside the Village of Kagawong.  We haven't seen any waterfalls and thought it would be something different to see so we stopped in a VERY small marina and walked down to see the falls.  The marina allowed us to tie up for a few hours for free.  


It was a very picturesque walk along the wooded trail to the falls.




Bridal Veil Falls - it was a worthy stop!



No, that's not us in the water. Its still too darn cold for people from south Texas. The falls are about 35 feet high.



Cute, small church on our quest to see the falls. Its know as the Sailor's Church and was built about 120 years ago. 


Look at the pulpit. It has quite a tragic history if you learn its story.






Though its difficult to read above, you can probably google the sad story of the 30 foot pleasure cruiser RHU and its tragic sinking on August 25, 1965. The bow of the boat was salvaged two years later by the residents of Kagawong from its resting place on the north shore of Manitoulin Island. Heartbreaking story.

Second Wave, of course, passed by the location of the wreck on our next course to Gore Bay. The shoal is now well marked.



Small beach by the marina.


On to our final destination for the day, Gore Bay!


Cool benches in the marina with maple leaf cutouts in them.




If it's not an ice cream shop, it's a brewery stop!!  Seems like everyone has their own craft beer! We first had one of the brews from Split Rail back in Little Current and decided to visit the brewery when we were in Gore Bay.





I didn't drink all 3, only the darkest one was mine!!


Brent drank all the rest....


Look closely....there are 2 deer feasting on the apples of this tree.  They were the tallest deer we have ever seen in our lives.  They definitely are not Texas white tail deer!



Many of the small towns we visit have hand painted murals on the sides of buildings in their downtown areas. All, of course, are done by local artists and are a source of pride for their communities. We always enjoy them too.







Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Fort Myers Beach and Downtown Fort Myers

Image
Fort Myers Beach proved to be yet another popular destination as you can see from the pics.  You would think that the temperature was in the high 80s with all the people on the beach but on this day it was barely over 70 but that didn't seem to hinder the population.  Downtown Fort Myers, which is walkable from the marina, always seems to have something going on. On Friday they had a Music Walk and as we went from one performance to another we weren't sure if the performers just picked their own spot to set up or if it was organized.  They offered a wide variety that ranged from a 10 year old country singer to 65-75 year olds band with horns.  There was something for everyone!   
Read more

Get out of our way Bea Sounier!!

Image
Today we left South Shore Harbor Marina in New Orleans after being there 3 days and never set eyes on anything in New Orleans, except Walmart!  Oh well, I don't think we missed much that we would be interested in.  We woke up to winds out of the North at about 15 knots and we had to enter Lake Pontchartrain to get back on the ICW and the waves again just tossed us around like a cork.  We tried to reduce our windage by opening up all our eisenglass windows and then we were freezing.  It was not the  way I wanted to start my Monday morning but we survived and things calmed down once we entered the ICW. Ken told us we should not see much more barge traffic now that we were east of the Mississippi River but we think every tug decided to wait for us to get going and they then all got in line in the narrow channel ahead of us.  It made for an extremely SLOW day since there were about 6-8 of them in a line and it was virtually impossible to pass any of them....
Read more

Making our lists and checking them twice

Image
As Brent and I pondered retirement, we wanted to be active and do something together.  We considered moving to a smaller house in a smaller city but that didn't spur any ideas of how we would fill our time. (For those of you who know me well, you know that I need to be busy most of the time.) We had always enjoyed being on the water and had owned boats for almost 20 years. So we decided that maybe living on a boat would be different yet, enjoyable.  We spent more than a year looking for the perfect live aboard boat with the idea of spending 6-12 months in one marina and then cruising on to another location. As we searched, we revisited an idea Brent had many years back.  He wanted to do the Great Loop.  In a weak moment, I agreed and then the type of boat we needed for The Loop changed drastically.  We needed something that was economical, had a long range, wasn't too large and wasn't too tall. (Lots of bridges to pass under).  In April 2017 we finally ...
Read more