We had an awesome sail—I could not believe how many boats were out—all types and sizes—it was like traffic on the freeway until we got out of the harbor and out on the main waters of Lake Ontario. There were several tall ships in Toronto for Canada Day. We motored past a few of them in the harbor—magnificent vessels. It’s hard to imagine what life must have been like on those ships back in the day. I would love to get a chance to sail on one for a few days.

Arthur’s Mom did not speak much English but Mary and Alice helped keep her company. They spent a bit of the time in the pilothouse having snacks and “gamming” in Mandarin. A “gam” is when two or more sailors get together and tell stories to each other. Not sure what you call it in Mandarin. When we were finished sailing we dropped Arthur and his mother off on the mainland and headed for Toronto Islands and Hanlan’s Wall.

As we expected, all of the spaces were gone so we needed to head for the designated anchorage area in the harbor. We tried to anchor there but the wind was pretty strong and it was adjacent to a busy (boating) traffic area. I was concerned that we might drag our anchor and/or get hit by an inattentive boater passing by, so we decided to move on. We headed back in to Toronto Islands and found an anchorage area in Lighthouse Cove, just beyond Hanlan’s wall and outside of the traffic zone. Now it was time for Ananda to settle down to her first night at anchor on this journey and we had found the perfect spot to do this.