We woke up to a boat covered in ash from last night’s
fireworks. So we headed over to the DEYC
dock to wash the boat.
Our plan for today was good;
we’d leave Boothbay by 10am in order to catch the flood tide up the
Sheepscot River and spend the night in Wiscasset. After washing the boat, we even left ahead of
schedule. However, when we arrived at
the Townsend Gut bridge, which is supposed to operate 24hrs/day, 365 days a
year, the bridge was not operational. So
we had to beat south against the tide to round Southport island. We did then have a nice, fair tide run up the
river, but couldn’t make Wiscasset on that tide. So we stopped in Oven Mouth, 43 56.23N 069 38.21W and anchored.
We took a dinghy ride to explore this area and on the way back
to Quinita, we noticed three seals sunbathing on rocks. We stopped our engine and dropped the dinghy
anchor upwind of them, hoping to quietly drift down for a better view. We did get some photos, but however quiet we
were, the seals didn’t seem to like us much.
Just as we were about to leave, something large broke the surface of the
water right next to the dinghy and alarmed us.
We still don’t know whether it was a brave seal trying to frighten us
off, or a seal coming up from a dive and being startled to find us there, or
the loch Ness monster … Anyway, we
guessed we might be disturbing the seals, so left. 
The area where we are anchored gets mud flats around the
edges during low tide. With a tide of 10
– 12 feet this dramatically changes the setting. At low tide many birds come in to walk the
mud flats in what looks like a search for clams, crabs and other food.
Ships Log: 5744.6, Todays Log: 16.9, Seasons Total: 49.4
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