Earthquakes and hurricanes. We’re missing all the fun sitting over here in beautiful Nova Scotia! It did look like we were going to have our own bit of fun a couple days ago when Scream’n Irene’s path was a bit different. We were getting ready for our third hurricane trip up the La Have River to Bridgewater but it looks like we’ll be fine staying at the secure harbor of Lockeport which will save us a lot of time. The winds are expected to start out of the SW Sunday afternoon and swing to the SW overnight and into Monday. Expected to be around 30 – 40 knots which is fine. We’re currently anchored off of Carter’s beach at Port Mouton (43 54.628N, 64 49.402W) (we think we are in the Bahamas – bathing suit weather, white sand beach, green-blue clear water - except for the 60 degree water temperature!). A front went through early this morning so we will stay here another night to let the seas settle down a bit and will head for Lockeport tomorrow.

Catching you up on ‘Glide’ and our travels since our last post after Harbour Island we stopped in Shelter cove for a night and then went into Jeddore Harbor (44 46.429N, 63 03.389W) to visit the home of John Van-S who was one of the OCC NL cruisers. Doug and Dale on ‘Bluewater’ were there as well. We all had a great time!

We left Jeddore and traveled with ‘Glide’ to Rogue’s Roost (44 28.492N, 63 45.362W) and spent two nights there, then traveled to Mahone Bay where we parted ways with ‘Glide’ and went to Mahone Bay Town. ‘Glide’ went to Chester where they have friends and could start working on their insurance company in earnest.

We spent a couple of nice days in Mahone Bay Town enjoying our return visit and then left and anchored out behind Young Island (44 28.755N, 64 17.057W). The next days we went over to Chester to visit with Pam and Denis as they had good news and wanted to celebrate. They finally got the OK to have ‘Glide’ trucked back to Maine and the quotes came in cheaper to do it at their yard in Rockland. They were most relieved and happy to finally have a direction after several weeks of nonsense from their insurance company.

We parted ways again and sailed over to Deep Cove (44 31.602N, 64 26.249W), which was a great little hurricane hole, and stayed two nights. We left there on Tuesday for Port Mouton, now we’re waiting to see what Irene decides to do. Not a bad place to wait at! We’ll head for Lockeport tomorrow and then wait, again, for a weather window to cross back to Maine.