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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