August 7 – Sept. 2 We are headed to Norfolk VA to leave the boat for a bit and fly back to Colorado. We left Baddeck on Monday because we knew bad weather was making its way North and didn’t want to be stay another week in Lake d’Or. We got through the locks at […]
August 3 – 6 We left Halifax and headed to our final destination; Bras d’Or Lake pronounced brÉ™-DOR as in Labrador. We had an intermediate stop in Tor Bay. It is not only a beautiful area but a dream anchorage. Easy in, big anchorage, deep but not too deep, pretty well protected and nice folks […]
July 26 – August 2 We are excited to finally arrive in Halifax. It was exciting to see some whales as we approached Halifax and a government helicopter thought so as well. We are staying at the Halifax Waterfront Marina which has floating docks along the wharves downtown. It is like camping in the middle […]
July 25 – 26 A long day after leaving Southwest Harbor we arrived in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. We saw a large number of very large sharks during the crossing. I mean really large. We actually came within 20 feet and I definitely saw a Great White just below the surface but couldn’t get a picture […]
July 22 – 23 Our goal is Nova Scotia but to get there we need to do some preperation. The first was to get fuel so we went back to Rockland but to the Journey’s End Marina instead of the Safe Harbor where we stayed last time. According to a friendly captain in Portland, it […]
July 16 – 19 One of the stops we had been looking forward to is meeting our dear friends Burt, Amy and Connie, in Boothbay Harbor for a few days of fun and eating. The party started on a high note with a lobster dinner with all of the trimmings. I went on my first […]
July 13 – 15 We are working our way to Boothbay and stopped for a night in our now familiar anchorage at Ebenecook Harbor on the Sheepscot River. It is such a convenient single day stop and large, easy anchorage to stay. The next day we continued up the Sheepscot River to Wiscasset. It is […]
July 4-11 Once more we are back to Portland but at a different marina. The Fore Points Marina caters to the bigger crowd and Terrapin looked like a rowboat by comparison. For the celebrity yacht spotters, we did see Podium go up the harbor but even this marina is not in its league. While Sandy […]
July 1-3 Sandy had tickets to fly back to Colorado so we started heading back to Portland on July 1st. With all of the fog at McGlathery Island we were worried we would be fogged in for take unnecessary risks getting back to Portland. We pulled up stakes, umm anchor, and overnighted at Ebenecook Harbor […]
June 29-30 We’re off to do some more gunkholing, this time in the Merchant Island chain at McGlathery Island. It is a picturesque anchorage next to the uninhabited island which is managed by a conservation agency. Getting into the anchorage was a test of patience. We are a stone’s throw away from Stonington which is […]