Flowerpot Island

We went to Flowerpot island today. We got the midday boat and elected to stay until the next boat, giving us about and 1 ¾ hours to look around. On the way out we went down the next inlet, Big Tub Harbour at the bottom of which are two wrecks; one is of a sailing vessel and the other is a steamship. Both are fascinatingly clearly visible below the water and surprisingly close to the bottom of the glass bottomed boat. We passed the Big Tub lighthouse that we had seen on Sunday immediately after our initial visit to Tobermory.
We were ferried to the island by launch from the boat after about a 40 minute crossing. On arrival were given a little talk by the ranger before being let loose to explore. We found a picnic table about 5 minutes walk down the beach along a boardwalk.

Cave on Flowerpot Island

We had a walk along the wooded edge to the island as far as a cave which was interesting although there were no stalactites or stalagmites. The scenery along the route was lovely and we were able to see Big Flowerpot and Little Flowerpot, two stacks that looked perilously unstable.

It was very warm and there was some debate as to whether we should take a dip to cool off. We decided to wait until we got back to the dock before doing this as we didn’t want to miss the boat. In the event it was a good decision as we didn’t have a lot of time to spare when we reached the dock. The trip back was quite choppy but fortunately didn’t appear to trouble me as much as once it would. In retrospect it would have been better to have taken the zodiac ride out to the island and spent a little more time there.
Back on dry land, we stopped in ‘The Sweet Shop’ for various ice creams. I elected to have a black cherry, mango and apple juice smoothie and very good it was too.

Back at the cottage we chilled in the warmth of the end of the day. We sat around another fire as the darkness gathered around us, playing 20 questions and watching the spectacular sunset as the sky rotated a kaleidoscope of colours before descending into darkness via deeper and deeper shades of gold.

Sunset in Warner Bay

Then the magic cloak of night with silvery dots clear and bright uncorrupted by light of civilisation.

Tobermory, Canada