Wednesday, July 20th

Fox harbor was only 6 or so nm away and we didn’t want to miss it, so we decided to have an easy days sail and stay there for a night.  We went for a short hike on South Benjamin then set off for Fox Harbour 46° 06’.71N 82° 14’.27W.  Motored all the way – no wind.  Went ashore for a hike, and it started raining, so we returned to Quinita to close the hatches.  Went ashore again, started our hike and discovered gazillions of wild blueberries, yum.  So we returned to Quinita again to pick up some containers.  Finally started our hike on the 3^rd attempt and collected 2 containers full of blueberries.  (The rain did not really materialize).  All the sailing guides to these parts warn against relying solely on GPS and chartplotters for navigation.  Today we found out why.  There was a plastic bottle on a line between us and the shore.  We went to investigate and found that the line was marking a submerged “deadhead” – a log sticking straight up out of the bottom and terminating about 6’ below the surface.  Apparently these logs are left over from the old logging days, and do not appear on any charts. 

Today’s log: 6.9nm, season total: 441.4