It’s an extremely beautiful setting here. We’re the only boat anchored in this bay. The bay is so small that we’re anchored off the bow and tied to a tree off the stern to keep us from swinging into shallow water or the shore on the side the anchor is dug in. There are no cottages or civilization within view (but there are some camp type cottages on the other small islands nearby and some on the other side of this island). It’s a tight fit to get into this spot with a big boat, but 2 or 3 fishing boats zoomed through the bay on their way to better fishing grounds. The granite bedrock at the waterline of the islands is the Canadian Shield, which is the mantle of the earth, exposed here with nothing covering it after it was scraped bare in the last ice age. There’s very little soil here for the plants and trees to get a hold in. All of this makes for beautiful scenery because all of the thousands of islands here have this nice, smooth granite at their shorelines and most have trees on top.
We had a visitor as at the boat shortly after we got here….. a large snapping turtle.
The main shell was about 1 foot long and the rest of the head and tail added another foot. It was obviously looking for handouts…. just staring up at us from the water. He was undoubtedly expecting the dead minnows that fishermen throw out of their minnow buckets here. He ate one I had, plus some braunschweiger Kathy gave him. He had no interest in apple slices, worms or lettuce. He stuck around for about 30 minutes and then swam off only to reappear 3 more times, just hanging around the boat to see if we had any more.I went fishing in the dinghy, with no luck, and I didn’t to fish from Nonchalance for fear of catching the snapping turtle. Kathy reminded me of my grandmother’s audio taped recipe for turtle soup, but I just did burgers on the grill instead.
Tomorrow we’re going up to the Bustard Islands. These islands are farther away from the population centers so we hope that there will be even fewer boats there.
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