Wednesday 22nd July

We headed for Baddeck, 46 05.75N 060 45.21W, at 8:30, planning to get to Barra Strait Bridge before the foul tide.  After a lumpy beat into choppy seas, we did (arriving at 10:42am), but there was a problem with the railroad bridge and it couldn’t be opened.  So we doodled around and eventually picked up a mooring at Barra Strait Marina until they fixed the bridge problem.  We got the all clear at 12:30pm and passed through the bridge.  By this time the wind was up to 15 – 18 knots, the tide was against us and the seas were even lumpier.  We reached Baddeck at 2:15pm and tied up in front of Dragonfly who had left a couple of hours before us. 

We started tidying up the boat, then the heavens opened and it rained and rained and rained for several hours.  Once again we were lucky to get settled just before it really started pounding down! 

It was still raining hard at 5:30pm when we went next door to Dragonfly for dinner.  After dinner, Teresa went back to Quinita for some tea bags and bumped into Mark and Nerine from Rudder Nonsense.   (If you’ve been paying attention to this blog you’ll know that we last saw them in Sydney).  So she returned with teabags and 2 additional guests.  Such is the cruising life in these parts. 

Ships Log: 4819.1, Todays Log: 25.5, Seasons Total: 371.2