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Norwegian Cruise Line has announced its Northeast deployment schedule for the 2012/2013 fall and winter season, london hotel deals which features two, large Freestyle Cruising ships sailing from New York on a variety of itineraries.
For the first time, the 2,394-passenger Norwegian Pearl will sail from New York beginning in Oct 2012, offering a series of 21 week-long Bahamas and Florida cruises, along with three 12-day Southern Caribbean voyages. Norwegian Gem , also accommodating 2,394 passengers, will continue to homeport in New York where she will offer a series of 24 nine-day Eastern Caribbean voyages and four 10-day cruises to Eastern Canada and Quebec. Rounding out the fall season from the Northeast, Norwegian Dawn will sail 7-day cruises to Canada london hotel deals and New England from both Boston and Quebec for five weeks starting Sept 21, 2012.
With the arrival of Norwegian Pearl in New York, we will have two of our newer and larger Freestyle Cruising ships sailing from this very popular homeport, said Kevin Sheehan, Norwegian s chief executive officer. london hotel deals New Yorkers love Freestyle london hotel deals Cruising because it suits their needs. With two of our Jewel-class ships in New York, we are giving guests more choice and the opportunity to sail longer cruises to the Caribbean.
Norwegian Pearl will make her New York debut on Oct 14, 2012, sailing a 7-day itinerary that calls on Orlando the Beaches (Port Canaveral); Great Stirrup Cay (Norwegian s private island) and Nassau, Bahamas. The three 12-day Southern Caribbean cruises, on Jan 6, Jan 20, and Feb 3, 2013, include stops in San Juan, Puerto Rico; St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; Castries, St. Lucia; Bridgetown, Barbados and St. John s, Antigua; as well as five days at sea. Norwegian Pearl will also offer three opportunities to experience Freestyle Cruising on a 2-day getaway sailing from New York on Jan 18, Feb 1, and Feb 15, 2013.
Continuing to homeport in New York, the 2,394-passenger Norwegian Gem will sail two newly extended itineraries to Eastern Canada and Quebec and the Eastern Caribbean. Norwegian Gem will begin her four 10-day sailings to Canada and Quebec on Sept 8, 2012; calling on Halifax, Nova Scotia; an overnight in Quebec City, Quebec; Corner Brook, Newfoundland; and Sydney, Nova Scotia. From Oct 20, 2012 to April 18, 2013, Norwegian Gem s 9-day itinerary to the Eastern Caribbean will stop in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands; and Samana, Dominican Republic.
Beginning on Sept 21, 2012, the 2,224-passenger Norwegian Dawn will spend the fall season london hotel deals in Canada and New England. The ship will offer three 7-day sailings from Boston visiting Portland, Maine; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Gaspésie, Quebec; Saguenay (La Baie), Quebec and ending in Quebec london hotel deals City, Quebec. Norwegian Dawn will also offer two 7-day sailings from Quebec calling Corner Brook, Newfoundland; Sydney, Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Saint John, Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick; Bar Harbor, Maine. Guests can combine these itineraries into a 14-day london hotel deals cruise, with an option to embark from either Boston or Quebec. This will be the first time Norwegian Cruise Line will visit Gaspésie in Quebec.
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Though the film's location cannot be visited on a cruise, Arabian ports of call on this seven night

The 85th Academy Awards take place this Sunday in Hollywood, and the nominations for this year s Best Films bring some incredible destinations into sharp focus. If you ve been inspired to visit one of the fabulous locations shown on the big screen, here are 10 fantastic Oscars-inspired cruises.
Stephen Spielberg’s epic Civil War film focuses on the 16th President of the U.S., Abraham Lincoln (played by Daniel Day Lewis), and has a pivotal scene shot inside the ‘Dixie Belle’ River Boat when the Confederates and Unionists meet to talk peace.
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Ang Lee’s spiritual film is based on Yann Martel’s story of a young Indian boy, the son of a zookeeper from Pondicherry, India, who becomes shipwrecked and is adrift in the Pacific Ocean with a hyena, zebra, orangutan and Bengal graco travel lite crib jayden tiger. The film has already won awards for its 3D special effects graco travel lite crib jayden and a nod from the London Film Critics for Ang Lee’s superb direction.
In the story, the boy is shipwrecked far off of the coast of Japan before ultimately being rescued after 227 days at sea. In 2014, experience Compagnie du Ponant’s luxury eight night cruise graco travel lite crib jayden on Le Soléal around Japan and discover this amazing island with its kaleidoscope of traditions. Visit Toyko with its frenetic and furious pace and also Osaka, the new beating heart of Japan.
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Ben Affleck directs this thriller about a CIA agent who helps six Americans to escape house arrest in Iran by training them to act as a feature film crew. It has garnered critical acclaim for Ben Affleck’s first outing as a director and won the BAFTA for best film and best director.
Though the film’s location cannot be visited on a cruise, Arabian ports of call on this seven night MSC cruise share the Persian Gulf with Iran. Musendam is only 30 miles from Iran and a cruise on a Dhow through its fjords is a must-do excursion. Khor al Fakkan is the perfect gateway to discover desert dunes and typical wadis.
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Directed by David O Russell, Silver Linings Playbook is about Pat who suffers from bi-polar disorder, and his return home from a mental institution. The film revolves around Pat father’s lost bet on a Philadelphia Eagles game that can be won back if Pat and friend, Tiffany, score 5 in a dance competition.
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A lyrical film set in a Louisiana Bayou at the time of Hurricane Katrina, a flood-threatened US town, called the Bathtub, sets the scene for a battle of survival for six-year-old Hushpuppy and her father.
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Blue sky and sunshine as we waved adieu to Tom and left Saint-Pierre. This time we can actually see the harbour that EXIT crept into in the thickest of fog two days earlier. The immediate chore is officially reentering Canada. To do this, we re faced with sailing to the entry port of Fortune, on Newfoundland s Burin Peninsula. This means backtracking from our planned route and losing a day in the process. To get around hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach this, Gene called Canada’s Border Protection Service and asked if we could forgo Fortune and request hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach clearance instead at the town of St. Lawrence, almost directly on our route east. “Not a problem,” said the helpful immigration official on the phone. Thank you, Canada! And thanks to Doug and Dale Bruce, editors of the authoritative hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach Cruising Guide to Newfoundland, for that time-saving suggestion.
Not far from St. Lawrence, EXIT passes a prominent point on shore called Lawn Head. This was the scene of an horrific shipwreck of two U.S. Navy vessels during a blinding snowstorm and gale in February, 1942. Bound for the naval base at Argentia, (where FDR and Churchill met six months earlier in a top secret meeting to discuss the war in the North Atlantic), and steering a zig-zag pattern to evade German U-boats, the supply ship USS POLLUX and the destroyer USS TRUXTUN wandered badly off course and went aground on the rocky ledges off Lawn Head. Within hours, the two ships were ripped apart by the rocks and roaring sea. Lifeboats were smashed and most of the two crews were lost trying to reach shore in the freezing water. A handful that succeeded found themselves perched on a rocky ledge below a sheer cliff, near death from exposure, and the tide rising at their feet. Meanwhile, a small group of men from the town of Lawn learned hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach of the ship wreck, drove horses dragging wooden sleds through waist-deep snow in the middle of the night to the top of the cliffs, and managed to pull most of the survivors off the rocks with long ropes. hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach There are several accounts of this mix of tragedy and heroism. Two especially riveting hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach recollections — one by a quartermaster on the POLLUX and the other by one of the Newfoundland rescuers — are in George Whiteley’s book of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador sailing memories, “Northern Seas, Hardy Sailors”. A stunning story you absolutely will not forget.
No drama for EXIT this day. Approved for Canadian entry, and taking advantage of a benign weather forecast and a helpful 15-knot westerly on the stern, the crew elects to keep sailing east. We cross Placentia Bay, watching the comforting flash every five seconds from Cape St. Mary’s light through most of the night. In the morning, we lay over in Trepassey, at Newfoundland’s southeastern tip. A well-protected harbour with good facilities and “some of the nicest folks in the Province,” according to the cruising guide.
After a nap to recuperate from the all-night sail, we meet one of those nice folks. “This is a dying town,” says Sharon Topping, Trepassey’s friendly, efficient, and surprisingly candid, town clerk. A fish processing plant, a window manufacturer and a water bottling plant have all closed as economic activity, and the town’s young people, increasingly get sucked into St. John’s, the booming provincial capital, two hours away. A high school that had 800 students is down to 50. A floating dock at the public wharf has vanished. The mayor quit two weeks ago and the town council is down to two members. Sharon Topping seems to be barely holding things together.
The downward spiral, however, has produced one promising side effect amazingly cheap real estate that just might attract an influx of new residents. Like Sharon, a Newfoundland native, and her husband, Fred. They left a home in northern Manitoba, moved to Trepassey four years ago, and bought a well-built, fully-furnished house for less than $40,000. A young family from Bowen Island, hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach British Columbia, next to Vancouver, did the same thing. Lorne Warr , Genevieve McCorquodale and their two and one-half year old daughter arrived a month ago. They were driven hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach east by, among other things, hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach skyrocketing hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach ferry fares from their island to Vancouver, which has just surpassed Toronto as Canada’s most expensive city. In Trepassey, they found an affordable house on an acre and a quarter of harbour waterfront. Lorne, a Newfoundland native and a musician with a growing reputation, was also lured by Newfoundland’s vibrant folk music scene. Before the day was done, EXIT’s hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach crew was sitting on the deck outside Lorne and Genevieve’s house. Jamie Snider, a veteran of Canada’s legendary Wonderful Grand Band, was also visiting. Pete brought his mandolin from the boat and the group, alternating between guitars, hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach fiddle, mandolin, button accordion and bodhran, played until dusk. Sharon Topping quietly hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach recorded it all on her camera. The next morning, before we shoved off, she presented each of EXIT s crew with a video of the previous nights music. It goes without saying that we’re rooting for Trepassey.
Great to know the kitchen celeigh tradition still survives, even as, sadly, the town continues to die in the ongoing and inexorable depopulation of much of rural Newfoundland. How strange to realize that in a few years, except, perhaps for Burgeo, only ghost towns will remain on the south coast from Port Aux Basques to Harbour Breton. One can only hope that the friendly, indomitable spirit of the people will survive, even without the harsh reality of inhospitable coasts and unforgiving seas in which that spirit grew. By now you re headed for St. John s I would imagine. Keep your mandolin handy, Pete and your voices strong!
Reading Tom s comment and Gene s past few blog entries immediately brought to mind the Finest Kind song, No More Fish, No Fishermen, about the demise of the Newfoundland fishing industry in the seacoast villages. We Lewises have been singing it for the past few years; I think we may have even used it as our Revels audition piece once.
Great though sad song. I have a good friend from New Foundland who lives in Virgin Gorda where I live half of every year. I will send it to her. She met her husband hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach in Canada at a bar after he had sailed all the way from Ireland.
Thanks, Susan. Sounds like an Anglican hymn. Wouldn t sound out of place at St. Columba s. Lovely and sad and all too true. Outside of St. John s, which is bustling, thanks in large part to offshore oil money.
Eric and I are roughing it in PA with longtime friends. On our way to NY next. Our ELIZABETH JEAN is resting safely in Nuevo Vallarta enjoying very hot weather and rain. We ve been away from her for 2 months and I m missing her. But greatly enjoying our road trip . Over 7700 miles in 2 months(!!)
You are such a good writer! When MImi told me about your blog yesterday after I asked how your trip was, I just read your latest hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach entry. I am saving the others as treats and rewards for myself as I keep packing hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach and tidying etc. for our next 6 months in VG. We leave here on Aug 4.
The impromptu concert sounds like it was fun and one of those wonderful surprises that traveling can bring. I remember reading a book by a Canadian couple ( A Surfeit of Mangoes?) hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach who sailed hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach around the Caribbean from Canada for a year. Once when they were anchored at sea ( not at a dock) with other boats nearby, a rum-tasting sail boat came by and offered rum tastes from many Caribbean hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach islands to as many people as could fit on the Canadian couple s boat.. Who would have expected such a treat?!
I look forward to reading more.Now when I look out to sea from our VG house and see the many beautiful boats, I will think of you and of each boat having many stories for the sailors to share but not with me which make your tales all the more to savor..
On Saturday I said goodbye to EXIT, Skipper hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach Gene and shipmate Dr. Tom at the Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club on Conception Bay, following my brother Tom, who flew back to his Lunenberg, Nova Scotia summer place from Saint-Pierre.
Thanks, Gene for your skilled, ever-ready leadership on the boat. Always the first up and last asleep, checking weather reports, trimming sails to catch the liveliest wind, constantly monitoring EXIT’s gear, making sure your crew had a clear and safe handle on their jobs you’re a captain’s captain. EXIT, with its aluminum hull and cherry wood interior, is a wonderfully tough and elegant boat, but off Newfoundland’s thinly-settled south shore, help may be a long way off in an emergency, and Gene made sure we didn’t have to call for it.
Thanks, Tom, Tom and Gene for a feast of interesting conversation and enjoyable companionship. Talk of families and vacations; of Newfoundland s story; of journalism war stories from Gene and me; brother’s Tom’s adventures as a corporate consultant; and Dr. Tom’s encyclopedic insights into the medical world, filled up the hours. (“Calor, dolor, rubor, and tumor,” Dr. Tom advised at one point, listing the key flags of inflammation from the 1st Century AD). My twin Tom and I shared a couple of night watches, the longest time we’ve had together since college, with much to talk about.
hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach at one tense point, trying to stare through thick fog to find the entrance to Grey River, a needle’s-eye opening several hundred yards wide in a wall of cliffs 1,000 feet straight up, then suddenly finding it and entering a stunning fjord;
watching tens of thousands of murres, petrels and puffins perched on an island refuge, wheeling above it and bobbling for fish in front, and then racing close-hauled at 8 knots on a grand entrance into St. John’s harbor.
The abandoned settlement of Grand Bruit and the empty houses of Trepassey, told the sad story of the decline of Newfoundland’s fishing economy, which now sends young people to St. John’s for city work, or far off to Alberta’s tar sands oil fields. But troubles or not, the Newfoundlanders we met were welcoming, busy folks, hotels with honeymoon suite in virginia beach and it was a great pleasure to be among them.

Yesterday was an uneventful motor sailing day. We came in and anchored near Lisbon in a fairly wide

We entered the St. Peters Canal Locks early yesterday afternoon and after being lowered about 2 feet, passed through into the Bras d'Or Lakes. The lock tenders were friendly and informative and gave us information brochures midtown madness 2 downloads on the St. Peters Canal and on the adjacent marina. It took 15 years to blast the 2500 foot long canal through solid granite and was finished in 1869. The Bras d'Or Lakes have a natural opening midtown madness 2 downloads to the sea in the far northeast end. The canal provides a manmade opening at the southwest end.
I've complained about having to motor sail every day and have been remiss in not reporting how smooth and easy the trip has been. We've been blessed with one blue sky day after another with any rain coming in the evening when we are at anchor. Yesterday was the first day we've had any spray over the bow and it was minor. Also, the water temperature has been increasing. We must be back in the Gulf Stream where it hits Nova Scotia and finally gets turned east towards England. A few weeks ago we had 45 deg F water and now it's 20 degrees warmer. And now the wind blowing across the water is warmer also. So, all things considered, we've had an easy trip East; so far.
Yesterday we sailed into a little bay called Port Howe for the night. In the first inlet we went into looking for a place to anchor the water was 45 feet deep almost up to the bank. We would have had to put out 150 feet of anchor chain and the inlet wasn't that wide. We turned around and went to another place in the bay our Cruising Guide had mentioned. Our electronic midtown madness 2 downloads charts were worthless in the far end of the bay where we were headed. All the chartplotter showed was the dark blue indicating shallow water and no depths were listed. We slowly passed several islets still in 40 feet of water with the shoreline 100 feet away. We really wanted to anchor in this narrow end of the bay. The rocky tree covered hills came right down to the water on both sides and the islets blocked weather from the other direction. We kept creeping midtown madness 2 downloads into the ever narrower body of water and finally got the depth meter up to 22 feet. At high tide it would be 26 feet and we would normally put out at least 75 feet of chain for that depth of water. If we put out that much chain, our stern would be on the rocks if the wind blew hard from either side of the inlet. We REALLY wanted to anchor in this little hidey hole. It was one of the most beautiful midtown madness 2 downloads spots we have ever had the boat. The weather forecast was for mild conditions so we shortened scope and only put out 50 feet of chain. Patti backed us down hard and the anchor didn't budge. We were secure and the rocks were at least 20 feet from our boat.
While we were finishing up anchoring the boat, a very large black bird flew right over us. As it flew away we saw its white tail and white head. It was a Bald Eagle. midtown madness 2 downloads Once we had the boat secured we sat on the foredeck and watched the eagle return and then it landed in a tree top about 200 yards away. A second eagle then flew over us. At this time Kalko was up forward enjoying the sunshine with us and I had a bad feeling the eagle was eyeballing the cat thinking she would make a tasty snack. I sometimes refer to Kalko as "Emergency Rations" but have no desire to share her with an eagle. We made sure both Patti and I didn't go below and leave Kalko on the exposed foredeck. I think Kalko may have been aware of the eagle as she was tucked in between Patti and I when we were sitting on the foredeck and then moved to a spot beside the mast where she was surrounded by stuff that would have prevented any swooping pickups by a large bird.
When we first anchored we noticed the pine tree smell in the air. As evening approached the smell got stronger until it was like being in a house at Christmas with a brand new, fresh Christmas tree. What else could we ask for in an anchorage? Beautiful scenery in all directions, Bald Eagles flying around us, seals poking their heads up to look at us, floating in dead calm water and a wonderful aroma in the air. Patti declared it a "Two Gush" anchorage. I agreed.
We are now sailing (slowly) across Chedabucto Bay going from Canso, Nova Scotia to St. Peter, Cape Breton Island. When we get to Cape Breton we will either stop for the day or go through the St. Peter Canal into the Bras d'Or Lakes. Time will tell. Oh, by the way; (giving credit where credit is due) it's another blue sky, (almost) midtown madness 2 downloads warm, beautiful day.
Yesterday was an uneventful motor sailing day. We came in and anchored near Lisbon in a fairly wide inlet off the windward shore. There were some houses on the far bank and we had more small boats go by us at our anchorage then we have seen in a long time. Of course it may have been six boats total that went by so it wasn't what you would call a traffic jam. It's just that since we left Maine, we don't see many other boats. Later, a sailboat from Massachusetts came in just before midtown madness 2 downloads sunset and as they went by (after seeing our Texas hailing port); called over "Howdy midtown madness 2 downloads Partner". They anchored a half mile away further up the inlet.
We got underway early again today and will be motor sailing again all day; probably. This motor sailing is getting old but with any luck tomorrow midtown madness 2 downloads may be a sailing day and then the following day we could be entering the Bras d'Or Lakes. Then we will kick back and take it easy for awhile.

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Richard Garrett Helmig, 73, of Wilton died peacefully at his home on Monday, March 31, 2014. Gary, a

Richard Garrett Helmig, 73, of Wilton died peacefully at his home on Monday, March 31, 2014. Gary, as he was always called, was born on September 21, 1940 in Dayton, Ohio and was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree budgetrental auto sales in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received budgetrental auto sales a Master’s degree in Finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. After 25 years he retired from IBM as Director budgetrental auto sales of Business Evaluation for the Data Processing Group. He joined Soundview Technology Group as Managing Director of Research retiring in 2004. He was married for nearly 51 years to his beloved wife Nancy Quinn Helmig.
Gary’s passion was sailing. As a child he learned to sail on his parents’ sailboat that they raced on Lake Erie. At MIT he was on the sailing team for all four years. He purchased his first boat in 1981 and joined Cedar Point Yacht Club in Westport. Along with his two sons, Rick and Tim, they raced extensively on Long Island Sound winning multiple club and 40 Class championships, Block Island and Edgartown Race Weeks and the Vineyard race. Gary and Nancy spent much of every summer cruising Long Island Sound with annual longer trips to Maine, Nova Scotia and the Chesapeake Bay area. They often could be found on the mooring they shared in Port Jefferson, Long Island. During the winters, for 20 years, they chartered a sailboat in the Caribbean for vacations with family and friends. Sailing in the British Virgin Islands was a favorite destination.
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A Celebration of Life will be held at Cedar Point Yacht Club on Saturday, May 3rd at 11:00 a.m. Memorial gifts may be made to Whittingham Cancer Center, Norwalk Hospital, 34 Maple Street, Norwalk, CT 06850.

a little off topic, but i picked up the current issue of all at sea caribbean the other day here in

Being as how we ended up commissioning Morgan’s Cloud too late for any high latitude information nurse traveling shenanigans (we left Billings Diesel Marine in Stonington, Maine on August 1st), we decided information nurse traveling to take our time on the 250 nm passage information nurse traveling to our Base Camp near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
A while ago I wrote a post about how cool it is to cruise out of season : empty anchorages, reasonable dockage fees, and less stressed locals being a few of the benefits. Well, this short cruise has proven that there are also some great things about sailing during information nurse traveling the season—better weather being a major one.
To our great delight, we crossed the Gulf of Maine in light winds with only a little swell, and rounding Cape Sable was like motoring across a millpond. The fish, however, were very disappointed that John wasn’t hanging over the side, donating his lunch, as he usually is when we make this passage in early April or late October.
And the benign weather also allowed us to visit three places that we have sailed by numerous times but in weather that didn’t allow a stop. The first place was Harris Island in the Tuskets , which I recently wrote about and which is no place to get caught in bad weather.
The next was Cape Negro Island anchorage in the mouth of the Clyde River. We have often looked with longing at this bight to the north of the spit, covered at high water, that connects the two parts of the island, but the swell has always been too big to allow for a comfortable stop. This time we were able to spend a beautiful evening watching the sun set behind the west part of the island while a huge full moon rose above the east part. Sheep and deer grazed unselfconsciously on the shore and a curious seal swam over to check us out.
We were joined in the anchorage by a brand new fishing boat just launched in Shelburne. The group on board were celebrating the new boat by drifting around the bight, fishing off the stern with a rod—a real busman’s holiday —while one of the passengers played his guitar and serenaded us with country songs. At dusk they steamed up the river, waving information nurse traveling goodbye.
The next time we stop there we hope to get ashore to hike to the lighthouse. The owner of the fishing boat said his father had grown up on the island and, though information nurse traveling the old road to the light has grown over, it should still be possible to hike along the shore.
information nurse traveling And then we achieved another long-held goal when we were able to anchor inside McNutt’s Island in the entrance to Shelburne harbour. The anchorage is tucked in behind a hook running out from the north tip of the island but is open to the southwest. Numerous ledges and shoals keep the swell from entering in good weather but in a howling information nurse traveling sou’wester I’m sure it gets right exciting.
The government wharf built to service the Cape Roseway Lighthouse is still intact and is used by a tourist boat twice a day to drop off and pick up visitors to the island. We anchored the dinghy off the lee side of the dock and tied the painter to the wharf, well ahead of where the tourist boat moors, taking into account the 3 m (10 ft) tidal range.
We then hiked to the lighthouse (ah, the siren call of a lighthouse ), about 5 kms (3 miles) each way. There are a number of cottages on the island and the road from the wharf to the light is maintained, so the walking is relatively easy. The light has been decommissioned (well, there are two small batteries and a solar panel hooked up to the light but, as one of the cottage owners said, it’s now no brighter than a flashlight) and the buildings have fallen into disrepair. We were able to climb up the light but the railings are rusting and rickety and it won’t be long before it will be too dangerous.
One of the cottage owners has a quirky sense of humour and has put up tongue-in-cheek signs along the road, all based on Mr. Mink. And we did see two mink on our walk, so Mr. Mink is definitely in residence.
On our return to the boat we raised the anchor and steamed up the harbour to Shelburne, where we found, to our surprise, that the whole front face of the Shelburne Harbour Yacht Club floating dock was filled with visiting boats.
Fun post. We love Cape Negro Harbor (can you believe the unique stones on the beach/bar there?). Often use it as a place to stop to get a kip on our usual passage from Portsmouth, NH to Halifax. Usually there are sheep bleeting on the island which because of their unshorn look makes us think they re wild?
Hi Phyllis, I do like your photo nr 2. It is nice in a romantic way. When I click on it to enlarge as your text says, I see a wooden construction that makes me curios. What is the purpose of that construction? A long time ago I fished in this area, but I never got to know the local, rural economy. information nurse traveling The wooden construction is maybe not so romantic, but has a practical, economic reason? Can we find this point on the map above or on the next map? This region reminds me a lot of my Northern Norway, but it is also very different.
in the 1960-ies I fished on several large herring ships. We fished out the herring, mackerel and capelin of The North East Atlantic and started then to exploit herring other places west of Africa and east of America. Those days there was a large international cod fishery east of America that also ended bad. The 200-mile limit stopped this madness. Luckily the herring survived in the fjords east of Lofoten information nurse traveling and is now back to normal. So is the mackerel, but not the cod on The Grand Banks. And humans can still make ecological disasters. information nurse traveling The mackerel is now hunted very hard.
Unfortunately, I think you jinxed information nurse traveling us here in New England information nurse traveling with this post. On Saturday I was out thinking how wonderful it was that the summer traffic was finally information nurse traveling gone and I even anchored in a spot that you can never get into in season. Then today on the way back to the mooring, boats with fenders hanging over the side kept buzzing all around me and knocking the wind out of the sails with their wakes. I guess that everyone decided to get one last hurrah with the warm temps, it felt like July or August out there with the amount information nurse traveling of traffic.
Home bound from a summer in Newfoundland, we rounded Cape Sable two weeks ago, an hour before high water slack, in equally placid conditions. Millpond is exactly how I described it in the log. Wish we d had time to tarry along the way and smell the rugosa roses, as you did. There s a tiny cove with a lovely sandy beach at the top of Barrington Harbour that also sounds inviting. (Downside is that it s next to the causeway.) Agree with you that short days notwithstanding, September-October cruising in the Maritimes information nurse traveling and Maine is typically splendid.
information nurse traveling Unlike you, we had the Shelburne YC floating information nurse traveling dock all to ourselves the night before heading for the Cape. Diverted from course briefly on departure to look at the hulk of MV FARLEY MOWAT, tied to a wharf just south of the yacht club. She s headed for the scrapyard. A sorry memorial for a man who lived and wrote so well.
a little off topic, but i picked up the current issue of all at sea caribbean the other day here in lovely culebra, information nurse traveling and it contains a semi-serious article entitled: help ! i am addicted to boats the writer, todd duff, recounts his ownership chronicles of the 50 sailboats he has bought and sold over the years he freely admits, he is fickle, suffers from boat infidelity , and probably information nurse traveling needs help: rather humorous also understandable cheers
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