Beautiful and seculded, except from the 30+ boats variously achored. Some swinging freely at anchor, and others, like us, med moored near shore.
We spent the evening with our stern 2 feet from shore, and used our fender board as a plank to walk to shore. It took a little fiddling to get it just right to keep from touching our rudder and transom on the rocks. 
Ben and I went onshore for a hike. The climbing was a little tricky. Lots of smooth granite and some slipperylichien. The Jack Pine trees contained large numbers of spiders. Ben counted 36 in a single tree. It makes you wonder what they are all waiting for? (We found out later in the evening when the witching hour came and the mosquitoes came out on mass. They seem to subside by midnight though. A look out the companionway in the morning showed a blanket of Shad-flies all over the cockpit. I must have picked off 100 and tossed them to the wind or the fish (some of them just flew back to the boat only to repeat the process).
We found wild blueberries and raspberries trying to eek out a living in the crevises in the granite. All tiny little berries but very sweet. We may go back with a container to bring a snack back to the boat.At bedtime, we re-adjusted to be 15' off the shore to be safe. We put up our borrowed windscoop and had a perfect nights sleep.
We woke up a little late today to a wonderful morning. A number of boat had already left or were in the process of weighing anchor. Linda and I rowed to the West gap to walk around on the smooth rock.
We made breakfast when we returned. Pancakes with Peach sauce! (Thanks Kathy). During breakfast, something didn't quite look right, as I could no longer see the island out the companion way. Turns out our line to the island had popped off the rock, and we were swining free. No problem, anchor holding well and all clear of other boats.Now we plan where we go next.
Chris
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