The 48th Annual Rivera Family Camping Trip

 

We are preparing for the annual Rivera Family camping trip at Indian River, Michigan.  This will be the 48^th annual trip that we have.  We have been going on family camping trips longer that that, but we, but we only started counting 48 years ago. 

 

We normally take the trip from Romeo to Indian River by going up I-75.  This time, however, we are planning on leaving Romeo a few days early and camping for a couple of days on the northeast cast of Georgian Bay on a small bay called Sturgeon Bay in Ontario.  Below is a map of the route we plan to take.

 

With Georgian Bay, Lake Huron is considered to be the second largest of the Great Lakes - if Georgian Bay were excluded, Lake Huron would be the third largest (after Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, but still ahead of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario).  There are tens of thousands of islands in Georgian Bay. Most of these islands are along the east side of the bay.

 

My original plan was to go see Hudson Bay, but as it turns out, there are no roads that go there.  One Canadian highway (road 11) goes within about 200 of the southern tip of Hudson Bay and there is a railroad route there.  But the only real option is to fly on a sea plane because there are no airports.   Henry Hudson (in the year 1611) is recorded as having made four voyages in search of a northern passage through the Arctic to East Asia; the first in 1607 and the last in 1610-11.  While none of his attempts were successful, he discovered two large bodies of water in Canada named for him — the Hudson Strait and the enormous Hudson Bay — as well as the Hudson River in New York.  On his final voyage in 1611, when he wanted to travel further west after wintering in James Bay, his homesick crew mutinied and set him adrift as they sailed back to England.  It’s said that Hudson attempted to keep pace with the ship in his rowboat until the crew grew tired of this guilty presence and let down their sails, leaving Hudson behind the horizon with his son, John, and seven of his crew members. They were never seen again. 

 

A Georgian Bay website:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=georgian+bay