Today: 8.44 mi
Trip: 756.94 mi
This morning was very foggy and quiet (except for the falcons of course). Most of the fog was offshore and we watched fishing boats coming and going from Silver Bay Harbor. We made our first push to Pellet Island which yielded a great view of Silver Bay Harbor and the freighter dock.
We started to cross the channel at the same time a small motor boat was. We got about halfway across when the wind shifted and the fog rolled in thick. Mom and I both took a compass reading before we lost sight of the dock and then the land just 1/4 mi away. We also lost sight of the motor boat. Lets just say our paddling pace picked up a bit and when the fog began to lift again we could see we were right on track and just passed the red channel buoy. We could barely see land again and we breathed a huge sigh of relief.
Sticking very close to shore now, we came to the harbor fog horn about 5 min later. We just about hit the roof when we heard a large horn offshore answer back! It sounded so close yet we could not see anything and heard no motor. Paddling on we tried to tell ourselves that it was just a large fishing boat that passed.
The winds started to really pick up so we hit the beach just short of Pallisade Head. We watched the fog blow up and over the 900 ft cliff and the large radio tower perched on top. We lost sight of the cliffs more than once and we were happy to not be out in the fog, wind, and waves.
In the early afternoon things calmed down and we headed out. We did see our friendly foghorn friend leave the harbor. It turned out to be a large freighter...too close for comfort I say.
We poked around the caves near the Pallisade Head and camped in Tettegouche State Park with a view of Shovel Point. It may have been a short mile day but I think our stress made up the difference.
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