Friday, July 19, 2013

Thursday July 18: Baie Fine - What A Night!!!

Baie Fine is a 7 mile long, relatively narrow channel between two of the mountain ranges of the La Cloche mountains – very much like a fjord. 

Crazy great scenery again – and even better views of the white mountains.








The white cliffs (these are really quite high but it's hard to really get a perspective) line almost the entire north side of the bay with moderate tree growth so the quartz rock is still so very visible.









After taking a ride to the end (through an even narrower channel), we turned around to look for a spot to anchor for the night. It was predicted to be higher than usual winds in the morning so we wanted to find a nice protected spot.

Ah – the perfect spot! A nice little hook of rock behind which we could hide – if it wasn't too shallow or too rocky. Turned out to be a perfect place :-)







Quite shallow (3 feet but a sand bottom) so Steve towed us over and planted the anchor in the rocks. A back anchor on the shoreline behind us and we were set for the winds that were coming from the SW in the morning. What a great place!


Until the thunderstorms came just after dusk….. We watched the AMAZING lightening show to the north of us and I had just crawled into bed when Steve said – it's coming OUR WAY. I don't know how high the wind gusts were but it was crazy windy with pelting rain and lightening. As we were watching, it suddenly seemed we were no longer in the same spot – near our nicely protective rock! The front anchor had pulled out of the rock …. so hard to see when the flash from lightening was the only way to tell what was going on and the rain was coming down so hard .....

The wind lasted only 15 minutes but by the time it finished we were sitting in the sand (let's hear it for the sand bottom!!) with the aft end of the boat about five feet from shore. We had the engine up so it was actually the very bottom of the boat that was sitting in the sand. My biggest fear: a tree would fall on the boat – how ironic that would be :-)

After a time we finally decided we weren't moving and indeed the boat was sitting on the bottom so there was nothing to be done until it was light and the winds and rain let up so we went to sleep. Fortunately the back anchor held so we didn't just skip down the shoreline!. Of course then I'm wondering half the night if we'll be able to get the boat OFF of the shore!

Morning and no problem :-) Steve, as usual, did all of the leg work of getting the boat out of the sand, taking the forward anchor back to where we really wanted it and also re-securing the aft anchor as well. Today (Friday) it's more of the same weather so we now sit very safe and super tied in to our great little spot on Baie Fine!`


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