Day 362 Montague Harbour

We made the short hop to Montague Harbour about mid day.  A whole 3.5 miles tying up to a buoy at the Montague Harbour Marine Park.  We launched Puff and took off for shore tying up at the dingy dock.

Montague Harbour  Marine Park was the first marine park  created in 1959 according to our books and a favorite of cruisers since it is so well protected.  Since the winds were out of the Northeast, we simply motored across.  As I said, a short hop.  Montague is one of the busiest parks we have been to.  It even has parking places for cars!

Once ashore, we hiked the trails over toward a sea shell beach.  It's made up of entirely sea shells.  The views Northwest were incredible.  We've been lucky enough to have great weather for quite some time.  Sunny and about 58 and expected to get warmer each day.   Click on the picture to see all the shells.  

On the dock, was a sign that said that the park was now accepting trash from boaters at a cost of $2.00 for a small bag and $3.00 for a larger bag.  While on our hike, we saw the trash bins at the top of the stairs up from the water along with a cash box for the fees.  As we hiked farther inland, we saw other trash bins with no fee box meant for campers.  Well, we pay the same amount that the campers do so what the heck, we simply hike to the campers trash bins and put our trash in theirs.  I guess the parks folk think that boaters are rich and will cough up the extra fees to get rid of their trash.  Now the books we have say that there is no fee to stay here till after May 1 but the Park Range come by our boat some time and dropped an envelope  in Puff telling us we had to pay even though it is still April.  OK, We paid so I don't feel so bad about not paying for the trash drop off.

The internet connection there was just about zero so I waited till now to do the blog.  We have set off for Retreat Cove about 5 miles farther up the coast.  The winds are nil at this point so we are just sitting and waiting.  As we started out, they were from the Northeast so the sail would have been great.  Once we got out here, it just about died.  Now we just sit and wait.  What's the hurry after all.  I'll let you know how Retreat Cove is once we get settle.  It's going to be a long afternoon there being no wind.