Well...we're in Kincardine now, where the phantom piper resides. Legend has it that a scot family headed out onto the lake to make their way to Kincardine, but when the day turned into night and the bad weather approached the family feared they may not find their way. The father began to play his bagpipes and hearing the pipes out on the water a settler in Kincardine grabbed his pipes and began to pipe back, piping the family all the way into the safety of the harbour. So to this day, upon entering the harbour at sunset, you will be piped by the phantom piper who stands atop the lighthouse at the entrance of the harbour.
So..we've seen the piper. Kincardine is a quaint little village with lots of shopping, and a great little asian food store, where I stocked up. We've had our first visitors in Kincardine (Steph and Andy), and enjoyed a quiet evening in the harbour visiting and catching up aboard Meggie.
For those of you who are wondering...we were safe in "the storm". South, north and east of us were hit pretty bad, but fortunately we were in the safety of the harbour in Tobermory and didn't seem to get much of anything, thank god. We have heard rumors of the wind reaching speeds of 70 and 80 knots. We're interested to know how the boats that were in the regatta faired in the storm. If anyone has any info please email us and let us know everyone is ok.
So our next stop will be in Goderich to return a gps lent to us by new friends that we met in Port Elgin after we had a small mishap with ours on Georgian Bay. From there we'll have a stopover in Grand Bend and then onto Sarnia to spend a few days with the Holman family. We've just received info that lock 10 on the Erie barge canal is closed and plans to open on labour day...so we'll have to look into that for sure.
Anyway, please everyone keep the emails coming, we've been fortunate so far to have been able to receive wireless connection in every port we've been to, therefore we've been able to update our blog and send emails.
So until the next port (or next time we get a connection)...
Ciao
Kylie and Mike