It was a wonderfully calm still night with just the insect noise to lull us to sleep. Sunday mornings are not the same any more now we have crossed the date line, as we only get the online Times newspaper at about 2pm. No more lazy Sunday morning reading in bed!
Late morning we went for a long kayak to a couple of bays along and had a lovely walk along a stunning beach. There has been some building and infrastructure going on but it looks abandoned now, huge big generators, cement mixers and loads of solar panels all falling into ruin. I suspect Covid hit these places hard and then the hurricane that came through, life is tough! It was good exercise for us.
We passed by the old Barque called Picton Caste that we saw yesterday, which was rather impressive, so many ropes everywhere. I googled the boat and discovered she is a three-masted sail training tall ship, based in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. Built in 1928 at Cochran’s Ship Building In Selby, Yorkshire as a steam powered fishing trawler, all very modern for the day, the local paper reporting on her maiden voyage marvelled over her electric lights and depth finder! Just before the start of WWII she was conscripted into the Royal Navy and became the HMS Picton Castle , a minesweeper/convoy escort. After the war she went back to her original owners, Consolidated Fisheries, and carried on trawling for fish for at least ten more years. After replacing the steam engine with a diesel engine and numerous name changes, she began hauling freight working in the North and Baltic Seas. In 1996, she was taken to Canada, to begin a multi-million dollar refit and she became the square-rigged barque we saw today.
Around in the next bay we pass Picton Castle
Passing Picton Castle, you can see someone on the top cross bar
Lovely bay we kayaked to
Huge trees on the beaches
Caught by Rowan!
Evidence of the huricane
Clear, clear water
The only sign of habitation that looks cared for
Amazing colour water
Rowan had a good long paddle board in the afternoon, the water was wonderfully flat which made it easy going. We had a delicious rack of lamb on the BBQ for our sunset dinner, with the sweetest, white potatoes I have ever eaten! I bought them in the market as they looked freshly dug up, they are small and not starchy like the white ones we get in the UK.
Another gorgeous sunset
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