Early this morning I went for a kayak ride around the Baddeck harbour. Then we all went for a nice walk along the waterfront board walk.
The plan for today is boat up the great bras d'or channel towards Kelly Cove to visit my friend Allan who just retired from DFO.
Noah and I had a good game of go fish on the way up.
The boating book says that Kelly cove is a nice place to anchor and there is a wharf to tie up at. The only exception is that in a southerly wind it is a challenging place to boat and dock. Well guess what. We had a southerly wind and a changing tide. What a nightmare. I swear that the wind was clocking in at 40 km. Well there was no place to dock on the wharf and the wind was fierce. We waved to Allan and gunned it out of there before the wind took us towards the shore.
Well back to Baddeck we go and with the wind it was going to take us 2.5 hours to get back. (Twice as long as going up). We took a lot of water coming over the boat on the way back. I got soaked on the bow bringing in the fenders after our aborted docking.
Our nice slip at the marina was taken so we had to tie up on the public wharf. Allan drove down to Baddeck to visit. It was nice to catch up.
Baddeck has lost it's charm to fishing boats arrived to party and played horrible music until 10 pm. Not very fun.
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