Still in Gore Bay, ON

We are still in Gore Bay.  

After a fun filled weekend, Monday's forecast was filled with chance of thunderstorms all day.  So we decided to stay put for another night.  Good thing since we watched thunderheads roll by all day and had a late afternoon thunderstorm.

Gore Bay has built a boardwalk most of the way around the bay so we went for a long walk.  With the dropping water levels, the head of the bay is drying out, but still marshy.  As we were walking back through town we noticed that the power was off in most of the town.  There was a hum of generators going.  The Shell station had one going to keep the gas pumps going. Some stores closed early.  It was pretty warm so a quick swim was in order. Very refreshing.

We were walking along the dock and some guy was wearing a golf shirt with an emblem on it.  I recognized it as a Royal Canadian Curling Club Men's Invitational Bonspiel shirt.  Turns out Peter Carter (Laurie) was a long time member at the Royals Curling, got married and moved up to Gore Bay.  I actually remember a sign at the club announcing that marriage.  It turns out that he is from St. John's NL and Belinda knew several common friends and family, including Bridgette and Wayne Hamilton. Small world.

We have sampled most of the restaurants around the marina so we decided to eat in.  We thought fresh fish would be nice.  After the Valumart and the yacht charter place, we could only find frozen.  We found out that fresh fish is only available on Fridays at the farmers market.  So frozen had to do.  We got a pickerel and pan fried it in some oil, herbs and flour. Very nice.  We also discovered that it was National Tequila Day so we finished dinner with a round of tequila.

Apparently the marina receives more than just boats here. We watched a small float plane taxi out and takeoff up the bay.

Weather is forecasted to be very unsettled for the rest of the week so we decided to stay put. (mal de port?) and let the weather pass.  We also realized that this is the longest we have stopped since leaving Mentor OH back in June.  So we will take the down time and I will do the oil change and fuel filter change.