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| LEAVING PORTLAND BEHIND |
It's
Monday September 12 and Rod's Birthday! We are leaving Hull Bay
after 2 nights at anchor heading for the Cape Cod Canal. We left
Broad Cove on Friday about 9:45 just as the fog was lifting.
Portsmouth was our next stop.
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| LOBSTER ANYONE??? |
We are constantly on the lookout for
lobster traps and find them miles offshore by the droves. When the seas are choppy the markers are almost invisible as they move up and down in the water. The day
was uneventful until early afternoon when off our starboard bow Rod
saw a large area with the water boiling.
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| DOLPHIN EVERY WHERE |
As
we drew closer we could see a large pod of dolphin feeding on a
school of fish. Around and around they went keeping
them in a large circle. This turned out to be the largest dolphin pod we have ever seen. There was somewhere between 20 and 30
working hard for the lunch. It's Perfect came up beside them and
they passed just across our stern. They were still working the same school of
fish. Getting to see the marine life up close is some of our most exciting times underway.
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| SUNSET IN KITTERY POINT |
Just
as the sun began to set we turned into Kittery Point, Maine to anchor outside the mooring field where we stayed on our way north. We picked up an empty mooring ball on the outside of the field. There was a
large Island Packet on a ball not far away, so Rod jumped in
dinghy to get the scoop on the mooring field. Turns out the ball we picked up was not part of the Portsmouth Yacht Club Mooring Field. So we stayed hooked up to see if anyone knocked on our boat to request a fee.
We
left Kittery Point about 6:45 in the morning headed for Hull Bay
outside Boston. We motorsailed out into the Gulf of Maine and
Scantum Basin. It was a perfect day on the water. The winds were light, the skies blue and the seas calm.
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WHALE OFF THE BOW!
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About 2pm Rod saw the first whale of our
passage south, it was about a 1/4 mile ahead. We slowed It's Perfect down
and came upon 2 whales, one very large. Wow I have to have a better camera. They were lying just on the
surface and I could see the large whale completely. His tale was huge! As we drew closer they began to move across in front of
us. Once they were clear of the boat they dove and turned
towards us. We stood on the starboard deck and watched the long dark
shadow of the largest whale pass under water just 20ft off the boat. He
swam passed leaving only his wake on the top of the water. As we got underway we saw our final whale sighting of
the day. Another whale surfaced and dove in front of the boat. Seeing whales up close and personal is an amazing experience.
We were just off Boston when the wind picked up and the seas got very rough. Lobster pots were everywhere and very hard to see between the waves. Because of the danger of floating lines and buoy's we try hard to avoid them. The conditions in the harbor made this very difficult.
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