Saturday, August 3, 2013

Aug 3 – Blueberry Picking

It was a nice sunny day and not too wavy so my cousin’s family and I decided to go blueberry picking. These excursions are partly just an excuses to get out in the boat on a nice day. If we get berries then that is a bonus.

We have a few favourite places we go. This time we went back to an island that I have not been to in several years. My cousin’s son had recently been there and said the berries looked good. It is about 6 km across our large bay to get there.

We cruised back and forth along the rocky shore of the island for a while trying to find a safe place to park the boat.

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It was a bit of slippery climb to get up away from the shore into the bushes.

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The blueberries were much more plentiful that I had seen them in years. They were a little small and there were still lots of green ones so we will probably go back.

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All I wanted was enough to put on my cereal. They wanted enough for my aunt to bake them one of her great blueberry pies. After I got my quota I just wandered around the island taking a few pictures.

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This area is a world famous sailing destination called the North Channel of Georgian Bay.  There is a long string of islands out from the shore so there is a several hundred kilometer long, very wide channel that is protected from the big waves of Georgian Bay and Lake Huron. There is a constant stream of sailboats going by.

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The trip back was much slower because it got windier with 3 to 4 foot waves. The boat handles the big waves so well that I have never felt scared in it. We just took our time and rolled over the waves. I only slammed down hard once.

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Of course, once we got back it calmed right down.

As I neared the cottage I almost hit a deadhead. These are old logs that lie on the bottom and then one end starts to float. I am not sure why. What you end up with is a big post sitting upright in the water. Obviously they can do serious damage if you hit one. We sent my cousin’s sons off to haul it in to shore.

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Since the family is up for the long weekend we decided to celebrate my father’s 85th birthday a few days early.

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Triple layer chocolate cake with chocolate icing, as requested.

1 comment:

  1. We have many fond memories of going blueberry picking on the islands near Point au Baril. Small but might tasty!! A few actually made it back to the cottage! :-)

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