A little more on our adventure.We are presently enjoying Yarmouth. N.S. and waiting to see what course hurricane 'Leslie takes. We are safe and sound at the town wharf (as they call the docks) here. We are now on the last leg of our jouney for this year.
Maine waters are beautiful and except for lobsterpods everywhere we sure appreciated the waters and coastlines in this part of our trip. Camden, a lovely port in Penobscot Bay on the Maine coastline came highly recommended as a must see place. We are glad we stopped to enjoy this anchorage and town.. We stopped at 2 places on Mt. Desert Is.[also the Acadia National Park], Bass Harbour on the southwest shore and Bar Harbour on the East shore. After one more anchorage we made it into our Canadian waters. On wed. Aug. 29 we were given a 2012 clearance number and welcomed back by the customs officer after making a phone call from Head Harbour marina. This harbour is found on the top end of Campobello Island, N.B. Coming here we did deal with strong currents since this is where the Atlantic ocean, Gulf of Maine and the Bay of Fundy converge.
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| Camden MN |
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| Adriana 1dwarfed by a small cruise ship Bar Harbor |
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| Main st Bar Harbor |
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| Lighthouse at Head Harbour Campobello Island NB |
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| Bill picking up Klaas and Margaret from the wharf at St Andrew-by- the-sea |
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| Klaas and Margaret whale whatching Bay of Fundy |
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| Fin whale Bay of Fundy |
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| Tourist centre Yarmouth NS |
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| Adriana 1 at the wharf in Yarmouth NS |
The next morning, August 30 we were enjoying a nice motor- sail heading to St. Andrews, N.B. when our engine overheated. With the engine off and sails up Bill was able to clean out the through- haul and after a while the coolant registered favourable temps. Now we were able to motor through a channel with currents and eddies into Passamoquoddy Bay to St. Andrews on the Sea. It was exciting to come to this port by water. We'd seen it by land a few times.This is the only time we've had the dock hand help us tie up to a mooring ball. That was great. Now we were able to prepare for the arrival of our sister and brother-in-law, Klaas and Marg. Friday eve. at 7 after a few text messages, Bill was on the wharf ready to meet them and bring them to the boat by dingy . So good to see them!! We were given beautiful weather the whole time they were with us.We toured Ross Museum , an amazing flower garden.Enjoyed hikes to a lookouts that offered amazing views of St Croix River etc. And to top it all we sure enjoyed the fin whales on the Monday and Tuesday we took the boat out to Campobello Island . Besides fin whales we saw one Humpback whale, seals, and lots of porpoises. Thanks to Klaas we were able to identify more sea gulls and terns by name. All in all God's creation amazes us ever day again-also in the sunsets. Wednesday a.m. was farewell again. Wednesday was also rain and fog. But we were thankful it cleared enough to make anchoring possible . This was the first time we had to anchor without the engine since it over heated again. This time it was the 'belt' and an O ring on the strainer. This set us back one day. But the next day we had a good sail to anchorage on east side of Grand Manan Island.From here we sailed to our current port, Yarmouth. We did have 2 -3 hours of fog but it cleared just as we turned into the channel. Praise God.
