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What a place! I’m getting ahead of myself but Bayfield is such a cute and quaint little town. Back to the start. We left Sarnia Bay Marina at 7:00am and headed towards Lake Huron. Our route from Sarnia to Bayfield The Blue Water bridge leading from the river into Lake Huron has the strongest current and while we were doing 7knots on the boat were only moving at about 3knots. Once through that...

This was the big run up the river. Some people choose to do it in two days but we decided one was enough. Our Route from Erieau to Sarnia We got up at 3:00am and left the marina by 4:00am. Boblo is a smaller marina that is not very deep, so I was armed with a flashlight at the bow of the boat making sure we got around a tight corner and crossed to the far side of the channel where it deepened a...

After waiting out the weather in Erieau it was finally time to set sail again. Leaving Erieau bright and early we headed off on the next leg of our journey to Bois Blanc Island (also known as Boblo) which is the bottom of the Detroit River. Erieau to Boblo Sunrise leaving Erieau Marina Sunrise leaving Erieau Marina Britt's parents live here and we were planning a stop to spend a day with them....

Leg 1 of our trip was a big one. We were traveling from Port Dover to Erieau. The adventure begins! Our day started bright and early, with not a lot of wind so we went wing and wing ( a run) to Long Point. Once we rounded the point we had to turn on the engine as we were traveling directly into the wind. Got to watch the sunrise as we started off Wing on wing That thankfully didn't last very...