Brooklyn - Liverpool

Brooklyn – Liverpool July 14

Brooklyn is a small town across from the town of Liverpool there's a paper bill there and. There was a Canadian frigate park there under repair. Now they were around Cape Sable Island we don't have as much tied and current to worry about.

Shelburne

Shelburne July 30

The Shelburne yacht club was a live with festivities as it was the beginning of Founder Days. The club hosts four days of racing and hands out plenty of trophy hard ware. We found a sleepy little place for breakfast and played trivia pursuit but we waited.

West Head

West head, Cape Sable Island, July 12

We had to wait till 1 o'clock to leave with the current in the fog again and motored to Westhead. It was recommended we stay 3 miles offshore for safe passage, even then the tidal current was over three knots. The harbour was like a rock fortress with the tide still over 3 m the walls were very high and low tide.

This is definitely a working harbour and then our lobster holding pens scattered about the grounds. We cooked amazing dinner of tuna scallops and lobster. 

Yarmouth

Yarmouth, July 10 and 11th

Yarmouth, July 10 and 11th

After another foggy day of motoring Stephen and I arrived at Killan Brothers Marina in Yarmouth. Meanwhile Keith flew in to Halifax rented a car and drove down to Yarmouth to meet us. When he arrived we headed to Rudder's Bar and Grill to celebrate, eat drink and be merry.

The next day we took the self-guided walking tour around the town and checked out all the houses that were built in the late 1800s. Checked out some fishing supply stores and bought some cool lights. Very handy I might add.

Westport, Nova Scotia

Stephen and I left Grand Manan with the low tide in thick fog, visibility only 1/4 mile. It stayed like that the whole way across to Westport on the end of the Digby neck. Getting in was interesting, we had to time it for ebb tide, which was easy enough but the fog was a challenge. It thinned out just as we were entering the pass, good thing because we still had 3 knots of current. Once again rafting to fishing boats for the night. We hiked out to the Joshua Slochom menorioral and back. Not much to it. There was whale watching tours be offered and a couple of tourist traps. The tidal range was still 4 meters.

The Bay of Fundy

Tides on steroids. Full noon and 28'. Docks higher than most buildings.
We went through the reverseing falls this morning. On our first attempt and we had to bail, doing 8 1/2 knots going down stream turned and clawed our way back to a safe distance away,  waited another 15 minutes and went through with no problems. We were instantly rewarded by a seal siting.  With little wind and small seas we bundled up and headed out to sea in a thick fog, our goal was north head harbour on Grand Manan Island.
Saw a small dolphin on the way.
Having entered the dock area and finding it full of commercial fishing boats, we tied up against one and climbed a three storey ramp to get to ground level.
I called Ben ( I guy I meet in St. John who lives on Grand Manan) and he came down and took us to his place for a beer and visit. He picked us up the next morning and gave us the island tour complete with some of it's history and lots of info about lobster fishing, he show us this boat and shop. Nice to get a guide tour, we exchange contact info and promised to keep in touch.
I hiked around part of the island in the afternoon, and saw two bares sun tanning on a picinic table, and came across the hole in the wall rock formation along the coast line.
 I should have bought the Granud Manan tee shirt. Great place!

Canada Day 150

I spent the day hanging around the yacht club, listening to 3 music groups and eating seafood.
After my mighty walk the day before I wasn't going far with shin splints.
On the 2nd I left harbour in the afternoon and foundg a place to anchor for the night. Not a hard thing to do on the St. John river system, there a tons of great spots that remind me of the white shell.
I cooked up a steak, did a little fishing, the fog rolled in around 10 pm again, talk about dark, unbelievable. You couldn't see the shore line 100 feet away, no lights, just crazy dark. I rented a mountain bike and headed to Rockwood Park. It's a large park basically in the city and multi use. They had lot of trails and 10 k of single trail, some root sections and lots of technical rock and slopely stuff. I got a good workout. I moved to the RKYC and met the comidor Kim and she gave me rum and introduced me to a Don, who taught me the ins and outs of the currents around here.  I helped Roy rig his new Hunter. Assume sun rise and set today.