Yesterday we stopped at Little Current, ON to stock up on groceries for the North Channel. It’s a much larger town than Killarney so they have real grocery stores. However, all the restaurants in town close between 7:30 and 8:00 PM. We wandered into one at 7:30 and they said the kitchen just closed!

Today, we cruised into the North Channel and anchored in a bay at a wilderness island named South Benjamin Island.
On the way here, we saw this large black bear swimming from island to island. I hope we don’t run into one of these when we’re walking Daisy on the islands here.

South Benjamin Island is a beautiful North Channel type anchorage with excellent scenery, good anchor holding and protection from wind and waves. We’re sharing the anchorage with 6 other boats, but we don’t mind. It’s a beautiful Saturday and the North Channel is full of cruisers.

I caught two nice smallmouth bass by fishing from the aft deck of Nonchalance. I had been out fishing from the dinghy earlier and didn’t catch any. It’s so much nicer to fish from the big boat. You just cast out and sit there with a drink in your hand or stand on the deck and cast. We had these two for dinner and they were delicious!