Views from our anchorage in Beaverstone Bay"Adagio" called us from their marina, and we initially decided to make the 33 mile journey to Beaverstone Bay together. The wind had calmed, but the skies were still overcast with very cool temperatures. Our boat, however, was placed on an inside dock perpendicular to the gas dock. Unfortunately, a sailboat came in for fuel and a pump-out and boxed us in so we couldn't leave until it left. For the uninitiated among our readers, a "pump-out "means that a vacuum pump is attached to a fitting on the boat's deck, and all the waste from the boat's toilets is vacuumed out. Usually this is a very simple procedure, but on this day a 13 year old dock hand was in charge, and inadvertently let the hose go too early and sprayed the sailboat and himself with feces, etc. We felt so sorry for the boy, who was not only embarrassed, but covered with the stuff. For him you might say that it was a "shitty day"! Though disgusted, the boat owner kept his cool, and cleaned up the mess on deck, and finally pulled out, so we that we could leave. By now, we were approximately an hour behind "Adagio", but we called them and told them to find us both a good anchorage. We operated our boat from the lower station to escape the chill as we crossed Georgian Bay, and eventually tucked ourselves into a lovely anchorage among the rocky islands of Beaverstone with the other boat nearby.
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