Day 255, Tuesday March 4th – a day in Bennett’s
Harbour
We spent a lovely night off the beach in Bennett’s Harbour
with hardly any wind. We are up to
listen to the weather, a quick breakfast and then Dawson heads to shore for a
run. The sun is shining so Dawson wants
to get the run in before it gets too hot.
Julie perseveres at her French lessons.
Dawson launches one of the kayaks and paddles into the dock
for a little bit of a warm up prior to the run.
While Dawson is putting his shoes on at the dock he spots another
runner, it is not very often that happens.
The day before on the walk into downtown Bennett’s Harbour Dawson had
seen a couple of roads heading off the Queen’s highway to the west which we
figure must go to the Atlantic coast so that will be the target for the
run. The road he follows goes past yet
another church, this one is in ruins, past an old salt pond, past the dump
until after 3.5 kms the trail ends at the other side of the island and there is
the Atlantic. The trail had a number of
recent tire marks on it and the reason for this is that there is a fishing boat
there that someone drives to daily.
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| Sailboat on shore compliments of a hurricane |
After the run a kayak expedition up the estuary is on the
agenda. The estuary is peaceful. There are about 3 sunken wrecks at the
harbour end of the entrance which invite fish habitat, but otherwise there is
not too much to see. We spot 1
turtle. We decide to head back as there
are some dark clouds on the horizon. As
we kayak back to the mothership the wind picks up a bit, but not enough to
cause the nasty waves that are building.
We realize that the tide going out and wind blowing in are causing some
fast moving steep current waves. These
are only about a foot and a half so not a huge deal, but add to the challenge
of getting back to the mothership.
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| Storm clouds, time to get back to teh mothership |
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| Huge lobster |
We have lunch and then head out to investigate dinner
restaurant options and hope to catch the library open. Once to shore, we are invited to sundowners
by Laurence and Diane who we met the day before and are from Nova Scotia and
staying on the island for a month. They
are in the process of purchasing a lobster tail from a fisherman who has just
come in from the reef with his spearfishing catch. He has a few large mutton snappers, and some
lobsters. These are the largest lobsters
we have seen. Dawson holds up the
largest and it is about 15 pounds.
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| Sundowners at the gazebo |
Next stop is the library, however it is closed. We double check that the restaurant will be
open this evening if we choose to return.
With no other errands we head to the dinghy to husk the 2 coconuts we
harvested the other day so we can take one over to Laurence and Diane’s when we
go for sundowners. We dinghy over to
their vacation home which is close to where we are anchored and are
welcomed. We have a lovely visit and
hear some of the local gossip. We stay
for a couple hours but head back to the boat after a beautiful sunset.
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| Laurence, Diane and Pat and us |
Cheers
Julie and Dawson
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