Leinster Bay Pictures
Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Tue 4 Dec 2007 18:21
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18:21.901N 64:43.377W
Picture 1 - This is a view of Leinster Bay taken
from shore. Our boat is in the center of the picture.
Picture 2 - The National Park Service charges
$15/night to stay on the moorings or to anchor. This is the floating pay
station in Leinster Bay. Cute, isn't it?
Picture 3 - We hiked to the remains of the Annaberg
Sugar Mill, and this is a picture of what is left of the windmill used to power
the wheels that crushed the juice out of the sugar cane. A funny thing
happened at the sugar mill....
We were just about to leave the park after walking
around all of the ruins, when Don suggested we go up to a part of the ruins that
we had missed. When we got up there, one of the volunteer docents came
over, introduced herself and started to tell us more about the sugar
plantation. Don just kept staring at her and finally said, 'You're Anne
Frick'. At this point I'm starting to get a little embarrassed - of
course she is Anne Frick, she introduced herself and on top of that she was
wearing a name tag. But then she stared back at Don and said, 'And you're
Don!'. Yes, here on St. John, where there are only 3,000 people, a small
fraction of which are people that relocated here from the US mainland, we ran
into someone that used to have a sailboat right next to Don's at Oak Park Marina
on Sodus Bay in Lake Ontario back in the 1980's. How entirely odd.
So Don and Anne Frick reminisced for a bit about other sailboaters they knew
from that era at Oak Park and Anne brought us up to speed on what she and her
husband Randy have been doing. They have a house on the St. Lawrence River
and a house near Coral Bay on St. John and they split time between the
two. Sounds good to us. After a bit we left and hiked back to
Leinster Bay. On this trip we have had quite a few small world experiences
- like running into other boaters who know the previous owners of our
boat and meeting Canadians that completed the world sailing rally back
in 1997, but this experience takes the cake so far.
Picture 4 - A view of Mary's Point taken from the
Annaberg Sugar Mill.
Picture 5 - We hiked over the hills of St. John to
Coral Bay, and this was our first view of the bay. It was getting ready to
rain at this point, but the rain only lasted the typical 5 minutes.
As we walked down into the town of Coral Bay and started discussing
where a good place for lunch might be, a truck came by and stopped on the side
of the road. Who was it? None other than Anne Frick. She just
happened to drive by just in time to give us good advice on where to go for
lunch. Another wacky coincidence.
Picture 6 - The same view of Coral Bay, but taken
as we were headed back to Leinster Bay. The sun was out and made for
a whole new look.
Picture 7 - Don had mentioned that there were wild donkeys and wild goats on St.
John, but I thought he was kidding until we saw both on our hike to Coral Bay
and back. These donkeys joined us for a bit on the hiking
trail.
Picture 8 - The wild goats trotted by us on the
road as we walked through the town of Coral Bay. This was the first bunch
to go by. A second bunch followed a few minutes later.
Picture 9 - This is a big nasty termite's nest in
one of the trees along the Leinster Bay / Coral Bay hiking trail.
That's it for our stay in Leinster
Bay.
Anne
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