For the last few days it’s been blueberries with everything. Blueberry crumble, blueberry pancakes and blueberries with cornflakes. Tonight, at anchor in Newstead Harbour, we have fresh baked blueberry pie. It turns out we have missed the cloudberry season but we should be here for the partridge berries in a couple of weeks time.
First thing this morning we crept very gently past ‘SHIMSHAL ROCK’ within the marina which is now clearly marked with an isolated danger buoy. The rock is named after us because we discovered it on our Lewisporte arrival in July when we were following the Harbour Master’s launch to our allocated berth.
It was a perfect morning with warm sunshine, a clear blue sky and a gentle breeze. We headed north for a couple of hours before passing inside Comfort Island and entering Newstead Harbour. As we came to the anchorage I went forward to drop the anchor confident that the windlass was working because I had tested it just 3 hours before. I pressed the control button but the windlass was dead! Fortunately I was able to jump start it with a screwdriver and we quickly got the anchor down and well dug in.
It was a perfect morning with warm sunshine, a clear blue sky and a gentle breeze. We headed north for a couple of hours before passing inside Comfort Island and entering Newstead Harbour. As we came to the anchorage I went forward to drop the anchor confident that the windlass was working because I had tested it just 3 hours before. I pressed the control button but the windlass was dead! Fortunately I was able to jump start it with a screwdriver and we quickly got the anchor down and well dug in.
It didn’t take long to discover that it was a corroded ‘waterproof’ fuse holder that had failed. Fortunately I had a spare which I installed in a more protected position.
With the windlass fixed and a fresh blueberry pie baked it was time to row ashore for an evening stroll in the warm sunshine.
Comfort Cove still has a working seafood processing plant and there was a 60’ shrimp / crab dredger tied up at the dock. A local sailboat was rafted up there too but there was nobody aboard.
On the way back to the boat we passed by Solomon’s Island with it’s lovely board walk out to the island in a salt marsh. According to a local we met the island had been a saw mill but the trees have taken over and now it is a nature reserve glowing in the evening sun.
Picture above is of Shimshal Rock in Lewisporte Marina. First discovered by our keel and now permanent marked.