LUNENBERG TO SHELBURNE

We covered 77 miles from 7 am to 4 pm in our journey from Lunenburg to Shelburne, day 51 our our trip.

Beautiful historic 18th century village with well preserved homes dating to the 1700's -- many movies are made in Shelburne, which has a lovely harbor and handsome buildings.

They also had fuel, and there are not a lot of places to fuel up in this area and they were short of enough fuel to fill us up.  We could have taken about 100 gallons more.  Why there is such a shortage of diesel fuel in this area, I have no idea.    We stayed only one night, had a nice walk through town, steak dinner on the boat.    Quiet place.

its a very quiet uncrowded harbor

beandock is a coffee shop (for giants?)

HALIFAX TO LUNENBERG

Thursday, Aug 7,  day 48

Trip Log 47.7 nm     total miles this trip:  1638 nautical miles to date

Left Halifax early, easy trip to Lunenberg, had sun, clouds, little wind, low swells.    Lovely town from approach, colorful.  Dockage not very good like most places along the Atlantic coast of NS.    But they are working on it, adding floating docks to the big fix wharves.  We  moved 4 times at Zwicker Dock to get power and water.

Interesting town with lovely harbor, tourist shops, restaurants, small museum with museum boats along the dock.   There was a market nearby for us to reprovision.  The famous schooner Bluenose II is docked at Lunenberg, this is a replica of the earlier fishing schooner, and is part of the marine museum which we enjoyed visiting.

Lunenberg folk festival on 8/7 to 8/10, some good acts, our favorite was Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem from CT & MA,  we attended a sort performance at one of the local churches and spent most of an afternoon enjoying performances at a park bandstand.    We also visited an old house/museum and a thrift store.  Our dock gave us a wonderful view of the beautiful harbor and it was fun to watch a dory race one morning in the harbor.

quite a colorful village

Bluenose

our dock

part of the museum

the dory race

a small museum

more colorful buildings

this was a lot of fun

leaving. . . .

TANGIER TO HALIFAX

Left Tangier about 8 am, and arrived in Halifax about  2pm, 48 nautical miles.

Entered busy Halifax Harbor and radio'd the dockmaster for our berth assignment.  Got settled on the 2nd tie up -- first dock was way too busy and rocky for us.  Second berth was fine, right in front of Maritime Museum of the Americas. It was a tight turn to get on the dock, easily accomplished by Captain Michael.  We had power, water, baths at ferry dock.   The first night was the Buskers Festival and the place was mobbed. I'm not sure what a Busker is.  Big crowds on the waterfront but all well behaved and our dock was roped off from the pedestrian traffic.  

We spent  three nights here in Halifax and really enjoyed the city, especially the waterfront area which is well developed for pedestrian traffic with a long long boardwalk.    Did some marketing, walked around the city, and climbed up to the top of the city to the fortress there.  Visited two museums and learned a bit about Halifax.   Intrigued by the story of Maud Lewis, a Nova Scotia artist.

A fun few days and so happy to be in a city.

The Halifax Citadel, national historic sight

City goes uphill from the harbor

miles of dock/boardwalk

a Poutine shack on the dock

not sure what the modern building is, the blob is a childrens play area

ferry and sailboats

view from our dockage, museum dock

here we are in Halifax, great spot for us

another ferry

a beautiful city and a beautiful harbor

George's Island, in Halifax harbor, is a national historic site

LISCOMBE TO TANGIER

Sunday, August 3 - Day 44 of our trip

So we have been traveling just over 6 weeks.  Seems much longer.

We left Liscombe Lodge at 11 am after doing our laundry there at the Lodge, and thanking Chester for all his help.  Chester is the dockmaster and jack of all trades there and it seems pretty much runs the place, outside of the office.  He was great.

We made out way back down the river to the ocean, and traveled 43 miles in haze, fog. rain, but no wind, to Tangier Harbor, we anchored in a lovely secluded setting,   Nice anchorage in about 14 feet water with mud bottom. After a bit the sun came out.  We are in a lovely cove, can see several homes but no other boats around.  Quiet evening with light winds.

rocky shoreline

 a rare sight -- another boat out in the Atlantic

Tangier inlet

Sunset at the anchorage

INTO THE ATLANTIC -- PORT HAWKSBURY TO LISCOMBE

Up and off just before 7 am, we left Port Hawksbury and headed out into the Atlantic Ocean.  This is the part of the trip that I have been nervous about, as it can be pretty rough and remote here.  The sea was not rough, but there were big ocean swells, and haze and fog.  A long trip in those conditions.  I got seasick and remained seasick for most of the day, sleeping on and off.   A long day for me and for Michael as well.

86 miles and 9.5 hours later we arrived at Liscombe Lodge, a  wonderful, old fashioned, rustic and comfortable Nova Scotia resort.   Liscombe Lodge is 5 miles up a river, and has a small dock which holds only 3 boats, so they raft a couple more.  We had 5 overnight.   I recovered quickly as soon as we reached terra firma, and we had a nice dinner at the lodge.

Liscombe Lodge offers a number of cottages, guest rooms, fine dining, tennis, swimming, hiking, kayaking, canoeing.  The marine diesel was cheaper than all other stops in CA, and we met some interesting people at the dock.  We stayed two nights, did some hiking, and really enjoyed this lovely stop.