Heywood Island, Canada – Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Because the North Channel is full of islands, we have lots of choices for our next anchorage. We chose Heywood Island. Upon approaching the anchorages, we saw several other boats already anchored – this always gives great comfort to know that other boats can “make it” in the coves. We passed through 2 “pools” of anchorages and decided to go to the 3^rd and final pool of the island. We came across our first “dead head”, which we thankfully missed. A “dead head” is a submerged log that is vertical in the water. One end is buried in the mud below, and the other end is floating up toward the water line. Another boater had made an attempt to mark the log with a plastic white bottle, but the white bottle was not floating on top very well, so it made it very hard to see. We missed the dead head with only about a foot to spare – and, unfortunately, we didn’t get a picture! Once we safely navigated to the anchorage spot, we radioed back to Merrill, and they made their way through the passages. Heywood turned out to be a great anchorage for us. The water was nice and Janie swam to shore at her convenience. The sunset was gorgeous. Off to Covered Portage Cove tomorrow….