Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The word of the day was “Spectacular!!” which was uttered many times, as well as, "Beautiful," "Gorgeous," "Stunning," "Unbelievable" and "Amazing!"

The forecast was for calm to light winds for the morning with the chance of showers and thunderstorms beginning at noon. We left Covered Portage Cove at 7:30 am and headed into Lansdowne Channel which is the main water highway between Killarney and Little Current. The channel can become very shallow in low water years so many cruisers pass on this route and go around. After coming through the channel we crossed the mouth of Frazer Bay to Frazer Point and came to the entrance to Baie Fine, one of the few fjords in North America. The scenery along this 10-mile passage to the Pool at its far end is unmatched. At 12:15 pm we dropped the anchor about as far into the Pool as we thought anyone would venture and admired the view of white quartz mountains, heavy woods and turquoise water. As we were eating our lunch, it started to rain a little so we relaxed and waited for the skies to clear.

At 3 pm, we took the dinghy out and two fishing poles. Gale immediately caught a large mouth bass and after it flopped around for a while, we decided we needed the stringer out of the big boat. As soon as we were going again, he caught two more bass and one of those was nearly 5 pounds! After an hour, it clouded up again and cooled off, so Gale took Maureen home and he and Lucy headed out for a little more fishing. After 45 minutes or so they made another pass by Blue Heron and said they’d be out for 10 more minutes. That was when Gale caught the 10-pound Northern! Needless to say, we had a glorious fresh Canadian fish dinner that evening. What a wonderful celebration for our 2nd Wedding Anniversary!

Today also marks over 1000 nautical miles traveled since leaving Delaware City on May 12th. (1,017 nautical miles = 1,170 statute miles)