Gaspe Bay, Quebec

Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Mon 30 Jul 2007 07:29
48:45.473N  64:16.251W
 
The rest of our 30ish hour trip to Gaspe Bay went fine, and during that time, several fairly momentous events took place:
1)  Don started to relax and act more like a retired person (see proof below)
2)  We went as far north as we are ever going to go on this trip (49.06 degrees north latitude) and turned south at 11am on Monday, 7/30 (major cause for celebration)
3)  Many, many confirmed dolphin sightings occurred.  And it's true, dolphins will come and swim alongside your boat as they did with our boat on this day.  Proof below (not a bad picture when compared with the whale picture that looked like a hunk of floating white plastic).  Dolphins swimming alongside your boat is a very cool thing.
4) We successfully completed the first (of many to come) overnight passage of this trip.
 
We arrived in Gaspe Bay after rounding the Gaspe Cape at about 6pm.  This area is incredibly pretty and very remote (no cell phone service and only a couple very small towns) with high cliffs and generally mountainous terrain.  Pictured below is the lighthouse on the Gaspe Cape, which marks the northern entrance to the bay.  Also attached below is a picture of the view we had of a small fishing village from our anchorage.  We slept well.
Anne
 

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