Aug. 29 - We sailed the spinnaker again yesterday and docked at Marina Matane. Rachael bought fresh scallops and shrimp and made a delicious seafood bisque for dinner. We expect to eat a lot of seafood in the weeks ahead, and boy are we ready!
When you come into a marina, you call them on your VHF radio to tell them the size of your boat and your draft (how deep into the water it goes - ours is five feet) so the marina knows whether or not they can accommodate you. Normally they will then direct you to a slip. We didn’t hear back from them, so we ventured in. Well, after dinner we realized that the ebbing tide had left both of our boats sitting on the bottom of our slips. Thankfully this is not a serious problem unless you're planning to leave before the flood tide, in which case you're stuck - literally. During the night I felt the boat begin to rock and knew the tide had come in; we had set our alarms so we could leave at 6:00, before it got too low again.
Now it's noon and we're about to dock at Marina Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, where I hope to have internet service so I can finally get these messages and photos posted. Calm water gave us good visibility this morning, so we saw dolphins, a few whales, and seals.
We're on the south shore of the St. Lawrence, still in Quebec, but New Brunswick is just south of us.
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