..."to the vagrant gypsy's life"... WHERED THE SUMMER GO?

She forgot to mention that we came upon two German U-Boot sailors that didnt know the war was over. They were holed up off Great Heron Island

You should have sold them your coffee.

and what, pray tell , would they have paid us in?
They refused a lift to MAtinicus so they are probably still there . They were quite old.

They probably had some loose gold fillings in their teeth. What's a gramme of gold to a tin cup of Starbucks?

Glad to see you back, fman. Didn't read what happened.... glad you're ok.

Thanks, we passed by the CApe like a flash on the way North. We stopped briefly at The "Hole" . There were two big beqmy RV's heading south for the South ATlantic and further. We tooted em out and viited some friends and then took off.
The trip was actually very pleasant . The cap is not one of these tyrant seadogs . He liked to sightsee as well as any of us. We were following a small pod of whales around Grand Manaan and we rqn into big RV that was heading south into Fundy . I got some pix and I will bunch them together when I see which ones my wife or I have left. (I lost my camera overboard) but Had my "Rebel" nd several fresh Sandiscs

Not necessarily a marine life poem but he gets the idea. Borrowed with permission from the Pygmy kayak crew" website

Cheer up fm.

next week we leave for the Maine coast to further take on the Bay Of Fundy. The hle pods have been especially numerous this year. When we took out the boat weve rented and did a few days cruise bfore the final deal, we saw at least 3 different pods of finbacks as we chugged to Grand Manaan.
Im hoping that we will stay up nar Eastport or Lubec for the remainder of the hot months (some short trips for business reasons though).
Ill be able to keep in touch thanks to several good cable WIFI nodes all around Downeast Maine. Im not going to use any mobile hot spots of my own because its phone based and Ive always gotten shunted through Canajaun Bell and their prices are outrageous when they intercept and carry my signals.

do you ever go past Parrsboro Nova Scotia?

we used to go out into Northumberlans, Cabot STrait and Gulf of St Lawrence but that was when we had to have our own boat lifted out and flatbedded to "da Nort Shore" .I think I recall that it was Sackville where we were hauled out and trucked over to Truro and we put in and toodled all around. Once,when we came back, we went around Nova SCotia and went to Sable Island and we hit a bad storm there, we did a mad dash for Campbelltown and the waves were busting over starboard side from the storm retrograding WEST. We made it and got tied up and sat out a three day storm. I think I wrote about it in one of these entries.
This time,(Since we have a huge deductible for any damages). We aren't gonna go deep blue water but Im sure we will get up to PArrsboro and Cape split ( we like to go find rounded amethyst crystals in the shoreline at low tides.)
Were gonna rent two mopeds (or maybe just one if we can get one with a shopping basket on the handle bars so we can get groceries back to the boat).

Its all gonna be new again since they've changed the GPS data again and Canada and US have had a buncha new VHF rules and NOW, we gotta stop and get frisked everytime we cross back and forth.
Were still hoping to keep a smiley face (these border guys and ladies all carry Glocks) and all Ill have is flares and a fire extinguisher.
Id feel safer with a shotgun but wed have to have gotten that paperwork underway many a month ago an it never crossed my mind.

Wear a helmet and some padding this time, eh?

I read that but I didn't understand most of it.

Bong voyage anyways.

I rented a boat this year since I sold my boat several years ago to raise money for a business purchase. We are only going to stay within the Bay of Fundy. (Believe me theres plenty of room to get lost and see things in the Bay of Fundy).

Turns out that the guy we rented this boat from wants to sell for about the same reasons. Well see after the rental period in Oct , maybe renting makes mre sense at my age. I don't know.

Have a great trip, Farmer.

I think I remember from my school geography lessons that the Bay of Fundy has one of the greatest tidal ranges anywhere.
So check your anchor chains, or moor at a marina might be good for untroubled sleep and no alarms. Or shipwrecks.
Just thought I would mention that.

heh heh. He said bong

never smoke pot on a boat. You never have enough snackfoods to last between ports of supply

Ive been sailing Fundy now for about 20 years and the only problems we have are plotting harbor accesses on the estern SHores of New Brunswick. These shores are quite gradual so they can leave you stranded in mud flats for hours if you aren't careful with plotting your channel accesses.
The channels are marked fairly well but you know how boys can get cut loose and they drift all over. We rely pretty much on GPS and radar now.

So, you're sayin' that even if you fill the hold with munchies, the winds and currents will conspire to keep you out of port until after it's all gone?