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| Fresh seafood right on site |
We woke up to an empty Escuminac harbour this morning. We had planned to pay our mooring fees when we woke up this morning. At 8am the harbour office opens, so Bob and I headed there (not a short distance) to pay our $15 each fees (cheapest so far!). We also asked whether the fish shop at the plant was open yet. It was not, but a phone call later, we were told that they would open for us.
We left with a good supply of shrimp, scallops, and pre-cooked lobster meat!
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All alone in the harbour ... pickup trucks where the boats used to be .
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< This is what we saw when we looked out of the cabin's this morning. There wasn't a single fishing boat left in the harbour. We had been woken up at first light by the sounds of boat engines and vehicles on the wharf as they all departed for the days activities leaving nothing but pickup trucks parked along the entire wharf.
We left harbour in little to no wind. It was misty and foggy, but not too cold. The water is warmer here, approaching 15C, so that tends to limit the lower temperature to a certain degree.
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| mine field |
Again today, thousands of lobster traps. We bumped off one and ran over another without seriously fouling anything. One small lapse in concentration is all that was needed to find one just out of your line of sight and then under your boat.
Some mild excitement ... we passed a sailboat today!!! This has been surprisingly infrequent, but the coastline is somewhat remote, and dominated by the fishing industry. Our AIS list, which has typically been full of a at least a dozen boats up to Gaspe, literally only has Finnish Line and Ramble On on the list. Sort of lonely out in this end of Canada! The boat we saw might be one of maybe 10 sailboats (or recreational motorboats for that matter) we've seen the whole trip.
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| Sandy shoreline predominate here |
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| Almost lined up! |
The entrance to harbour and our destination was, as is common along this piece of shoreline, a winding path through sand bar entrances and narrow channels in sandy bays. Paying close attention to the channel markers is important as their actual locations is not what the charts say (to be fair, the charts do indicate that shifting sands and silting may result in different locations for the marks). Ranges are common and there were 3 of them to help navigate into the inner harbour.
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Just a couple of fishing boat here,,
taking things apart for the season |
The marina was a small affair and had just barely enough depth. Again, we were partly within a fishing harbour, although this time, the main wharf was deteriorating and the amount of fishing activity here was significantly smaller that previous harbours. What remained of the fishing fleet was on last day of season we watched a boat disassemble their arches outriggers and paravanes, as well as a removable platform that raised the whole back of the boat up my a couple of feet.
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| Small little marine. |
We were greeted by a most friendly marina operators and directed to the outermost slips (probably due to depth availability). The marine was mostly populated by pontoon boats, and other small motor craft. There were a couple of sailboats in the 25' range. We are certainly the biggest boats here. Again, we were the first visiting boats of the season.
Tonight, burgers on the BBQ!
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| Again, a seal monitors us from a distance |
Us always I enjoyed the blog very much, keep it coming
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