Day 26: July 24, 2015
Another peaceful night in a beautiful cove. We slept well. We kicked off another great day with blueberry
pancakes and good hot coffee. We were a
bit disappointed in North Haven. We had planned to stay in Perry Cove for
another day but decided to do a bit more “guck holing” before we had to head
back toward Ohio. This island,
Vinalhaven, is quite large with a lot of interesting- looking pockets in which
we can drop our hook so we went exploring.
Entering Leadbetter Island Narrows |
We left Perry Cove at about 9:30 and motored on
glassy water down around the west side of the island. We passed interesting
islands like Leadbetter, Fiddlehead, Dogfish, Hurricane, Lawrys, Cedar, and
Crane. We passed through Hurricane Sound
along which were beautiful rock formations.
We ended up in Long Cove.
Long Cove is a lovely little spot that is well
protected. We wove in and around a
number of these islands to get back in here.
Two other boats were already tied to mooring balls when we arrived and
water depths that are suitable for us for anchoring are
limited. Since there were 5 or 6 unused mooring balls,
we decided to try the “we will use it until someone tells us to move”
philosophy. We looked around and found
one in a nice location and tied on but after looking at this particular ball,
we noticed it had “PVT” painted on it and we thought that it may be that the
owner really didn’t want us to use it.
So, I got into Dink and rowed
around until I found one in which the paint was so worn off that I couldn’t
read it and we moved.
Rocks near Fiddlehead Island |
Eagle loosing a fish Photo by Richard Leighton |
Our anchorage in Long Cove |
Later, as I was reading in our guide book about this
place, the author pointed out that this was a very popular cove and boaters
come in, hook on to the balls and are then surprised when the owner comes
around and demands an exorbitant fee for its use. So, we spent the rest of the day wondering if
the next boat coming in would be the owner.
By bed time, he had not arrived.
At one point in the afternoon, we heard some racket
from a flying bird and looked up just in time to see an osprey attacking a bald
eagle that was carrying a fish. In the
encounter, the eagle dropped the fish, attempted to retrieve it but had to move
on because the persistent osprey continued the attack. The eagle finally landed in a tree about 100
yards from our boat.
Our goal was
to do some exploring in the dinghy but the wind began to blow and thunder
clouds followed by rain put a damper on those plans. We spent the remainder of the afternoon and
evening back in our books.
We enjoyed our evening meal of faux noodles and spaghetti
with meatballs. We washed them down with
cool beer and, indeed, we had our Tillamook cheese as our appetizer.
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