Fox Harbour what a beauty!

We ended up staying in Gore Bay at anchor for 3 days and had beautiful weather.  Brian and I enjoyed walking the town and the boardwalk.  We had the best Dumplings and bread pudding at the Rocky Racoon Cafe. On the evening we had fellow sailors over and shared stories. Our old boat Verity iii pulled in on the second day.

From there we sailed to Turnbull Islands.  After staying there we have determined it is in our top 3 places to go.  The anchorage is surrounded by small little islands and we enjoyed a secluded inlet all to ourselves.  Our 46-foot sailboat with 70 feet of chain out just fit.

We left the Turnbull Islands and headed for Moiles and tried blueberry picking.  It seems that the plants are behind by 2 weeks so not enough ripe fruit for pancakes.  When leaving Moiles, we brought up a huge log with the anchor but was able to quickly free it without any damages.  We then headed for Eagle Island and spent 2 days sheltered from high winds.  Our dinghy decided to take an adventure and wander off so Brian jumped in and saved it.

After a short sail to Fox Harbour, we celebrated our 24th anniversary at anchor.  This place topped our list of numbered places to be and bumping the Benjamins to 2nd.  It is similar to the Benjamins, but on a smaller scale with a bunch of small granite islands with a small wetland made by the beavers.  this is another narrow anchorage so we set a stern anchor to stop our swing. It is here that I caught my very first yellow bass of approximately 16 inches with a month old worm from Tobermory.  We also met sailor Mike and his dog Chestnut from Pirate Shanty and had him over for pizza and rum for dinner.  Matt and Julia from Sea Jay came over to introduce themselves.  They are also leaving this August for the Bahamas and we are planing on meeting up with them at some point.  On our anniversary day, Matt's mom came by with her kayak and delivered blueberry muffins and Mike invited us for homemade blueberry pie.  I guess our 24th anniversary's theme was blueberry.  Fox Harbour had a lot of blueberries and we picked up enough to make blueberry pancakes.

After a couple of days, we left Fox Harbour as we had head issues and we desperately needed a pump-out to deal with them so we motored to Little Current and took up some free wall space for the day.  Before sunset, we motored to West Rous again to shelter from high winds.  The next morning I decided to fix our fishing rod's line.  I pretty let out all the line and reeled it back in.  To my surprise, I caught my second yellow bass.  We left the next morning to join the Cruiser's Net broadcast in Little Current and to pick up Brian's mom, sister, and nephew.  They are joining us for a couple of days.

Interesting statistics, we have anchored out now for over 28 days and when we filled up in little current it only took 50 litres of fuel to top us up. We've spent more on emptying our holding tanks.