it was really hard to leave Mahone Bay, and our new friends Peter and Mary, Gregg and Christine ... but there is so many gunk holes to explore in the Bay of Mahone .... first we headed off to Backman Island, you can anchor or pick up a mooring ball, it took us about one hour motor , there was no other boats here at this time ... we had to take advantage of nice skies and a bit of wind, laundry day
then off to explore, it was low tide and the rowing to shore was quite pleasant, these are all protected areas, and signs to post the same "Leave only Footprints"... another couple of boats arrived, and they all went to other mooring balls ... so I guess so far we are safe on ours
the trees in this area sure have a hard time surviving, lots of harsh conditions and the salt air
we walked to the other side of the island .... no sea glass here either
it was a great day and night with a beautiful sunset, 4 boats in total in this small area, there was at least 6 more mooring balls available
this is the next morning, totally fogged in, all of the sailboats left in the fog, most definitely they know were they are going ....
the fog did lift around 1pm and we motored a mile to the Lunenburg Yacht Club, we had hoped to anchor in this basin, (as the 5 year old guide book said so), but it was so full or mooring balls, there was no way to swing a boat at anchor. So off we went again back to the empty Backman's Island.
we made lists of the boat chores we had to do before the boat can be hauled, and started to do what we could do. Here Joe is unzipping the binimi, and dodger and cleaning the stainless frame with Never Dull, then the BBQ and all the stanchion's too. I continued my work on scrapping the wood and getting it prepped for varnishing ... it was getting too late in the day to actually varnish it.
maybe that was a good idea, because a fog bank started to roll in and it got quite cold and misty
we thought it looked a bit funny as it came up and over the island ... I hope tomorrow
we can head out and explore some more ... the winds are to change over night, lets hope the weather man it right !!!!
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