After a week on Mount Desert Island it was time to say goodbye to Maine and start following the birds south. We had reached our goal destination and quite frankly had had enough of the lobster traps! I don’t know how people sail in Maine regularly because we found it really tiring always being on full alert. Thank goodness we had Brett to help keep watch and spread the fun around! The good thing about paying so much attention though was that we didn’t miss any of the beautiful scenery!
We knew our passage would be about 36 hours so we set out early in the morning and bid farewell to the most northern point on our journey. We knew the first several hours would be spent dodging lobster traps so we all took turns up on the bow.
Goodbye Maine!
If only we could teach Stanley to help on watch!
We couldn’t have asked for a calmer sea. It was almost glassy as we headed out into the Gulf of Maine. We could have asked for some wind though! Ah well, you get what you get…
Beautiful, calm day.
Ryan getting a little shut eye.
A beautiful day led into a beautiful sunset, but fog was looming on the horizon….
Maine just could not let us get away without experiencing that famous Mainer Fog. We had good luck up until this point of not getting caught out in the fog. After all we’d heard about it we weren’t sure if we’d even be able to SEE Maine. 🙂 The fog started up right at sunset and was with us until our arrival in Cape Cod the next morning!
The bow of our boat. Can’t see much beyond that….
Other than the fog it was an uneventful voyage and we made it safely down to Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod. Oh and we saw some dolphins having fun!
