We are in Harmony Bay, a subsection of Batchawana Bay, which opens off Whitefish Bay, one small corner of Lake Superior. It’s not intuitively obvious what the scale is just from looking at the chart and that makes it worth a visit all by itself. The water is a surprisingly warm 24 degrees in this little bay, so swimming was not such a daring move.
We are about 1/3 of a mile offshore in 20 feet of water on a sandy bottom. We tried to dinghy closer but it was about 2’ deep by the time we were half way there. The smoky hills rising above highway 17 look a lot farther away than they are. It was thick enough we pulled out the masks on the way here.
We were followed out of the Soo by the Algoma Discovery. Jamie says “Yes definitely be careful! They're surprisingly fast for being a bathtub filled with rocks”
A little reading makes it clear you need Jerry cans of fuel to venture further into Superior.
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