Croker Island – July 20-21, 2010

Well, I guess I was getting tired of taking pictures! Crocker Island was a great time, but I left my camera on board when we did our dinghy rides! Partly because I didn’t want to get it wet, and partly because I knew I was missing some of my faculties and that it was entirely possible to have dropped it in the drink!

We anchored at Crocker Island and it was simply beautiful. We all went for dinghy rides and found lots of new places to try next time. So far so good for the Ruff Life, we haven’t hit a rock or dead head yet – and we were feeling a little too lucky to push our nose into uncharted waters – so we stayed put at our anchorage for 2 days. A small, but powerful storm, blew in one night and we all held anchors just fine. We were a little nervous because the heavy wind was right on our bow – so Scot started the engines just in case we broke lose – there was a rock wall behind us! Our entire group did fine, but a sailboat in front of us started to drag anchor and head our way. His anchor skipped a few times and then finally took hold again. We kept our engines on for him too! Ultimately, the storm went over and 30 minutes later, we were all dried out, with sunny skies and warm temps!

This is our last day playing in the islands. Due to weather concerns, we are going to depart from the group in the morning and start making our way west toward St. Ignace. While we don’t enjoy seas over 3 feet, our 14 year old dog really doesn’t like them – so we figured we’d try to travel in 3ft or less so that we all were enjoying things a little bit more.