Video: Cruising Georgian Bay & the 30,000 Islands, Summer 2024

January 12, 2025georgianbaybeauties 1 Comment

Georgian Bay is all about breathtaking scenery, magical hideaways, and incredible sunsets! Check out my short video – starting with drone footage from the 30,000 Islands – of our 2024 explorations on the Bay and see how many places you recognize, or even better – perhaps you will spot your boat!

Part of the beauty of the Bay is finding those hidden treasures and quiet anchorages – spots you will never want to share the location of! – and I’ve included a few of mine in this video. Be sure to have your sound on for my introduction as I give you the location of the first stop.

And if you’re starting to think about your 2025 cruising itinerary, be sure to check back in a few weeks for my upcoming story on our top 5 anchorages of 2024 and the must see dinghy day trips from each location!

By paddle, sail, or motor – there are endless places to explore on the Bay, where is 2025 going to take you?

Improving Onboard Life: Our Top 10 Best Additions of 2024

September 1, 2024April 12, 2025georgianbaybeauties 2 Comments

The majority of our summer is spent cruising and anchoring around Georgian Bay and like most boaters we are always on the lookout for ways to improve and/or extend our onboard living.

Here is a list of our top 10 additions from the 2024 season that made our boating life better! From the bridge to the galley, anchoring and prop protection, these are what made our life on board a little easier and in some cases helped us sleep better at night:

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Cruising Georgian Bay 2024: My four week – 12 stop itinerary

June 18, 2024July 8, 2024georgianbaybeauties 1 Comment

Following May’s hectic pace of getting boats launched, cleaned and the winter gremlins cleared out, June is the perfect month to research, plan, and then begin your cruising itinerary for the summer.

For Georgian Bay I utilize my charts, Great Lakes Cruising Club binders, and Ports guide when planning our trips. Occasionally I will check Google Earth and/or Google images for additional info when heading into an unfamiliar area or just searching for places to explore by dinghy or on foot, like rivers and forests.

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Cruising the 30,000 Islands: Canada’s Freshwater Paradise for Boaters! ❤️

May 14, 2024December 10, 2025georgianbaybeauties Leave a comment

If you’re planning to cruise the 30,000 Islands of Georgian Bay then be sure to check out my article in Canada’s largest national boating magazine – “Canadian Boating”!

Cruising Georgian Bay’s 30,000 Islands: Canada’s Freshwater Paradise for Boaters

Cabot Head Light Station: Another “Ghost of the Bay”?

August 12, 2023October 12, 2023georgianbaybeauties 4 Comments

Situated on the remote northeast point of the Bruce Peninsula overlooking Georgian Bay, Cabot Head Light Station was just a few short years ago a drive-up tourist “destination” with museum, picnic area and gift shop! Sadly this property with it’s stunning views of the Bay now sits abandoned, looking more like a ghost town!

The light station boarded up, sidewalks crumbling, picnic areas overgrown with brush, the only road in barely passable by car. Reasons for the abandonment? From what I understand there were/are three main ones: road access/maintenance, hazardous contamination, and lack of funding – each made all the more difficult to resolve due to the isolated location of the property.