This is the first in a three part series, depicting a tour of Fathom Five National Marine Park, including Flowerpot Island.

As always, click any photo to view larger on Flickr.

Guess where I was today?

Blue Heron Cruises offers several choices of vessel, plying the waters of Fathom Five National Marine Park, near Tobermory.

This jetboat is a new addition to the fleet, called the Flowerpot Express. It’s basically a water taxi out to Flowerpot Island. If you take the larger Blue Heron V to Flowerpot, you still have to transfer to one of these jetboats to get ashore.

I was watching this boat running at speed out on the Bay… it zips along pretty good… but the passengers were getting pretty wet from the bow spray, it looked like.

This is a medium sized craft called the Blue Heron V. It does a tour of the sunken wrecks in Big Tub Harbour (This is Little Tub we see here) and then does a run over to Flowerpot Island.

The flagship vessel of Blue Heron Cruises is the Great Blue Heron. Which makes sense, ornithologically speaking. This was to be my vessel of choice this day. I sat topside, starboard, forward-most seat. Ahoy, mateys, I know some jargon.

Flowerpot Island Cruise(part 2)
Flowerpot Island Cruise(part 3)

View all the photos from all 3 parts as a slideshow on Flickr.