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Sitting in the Fog

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We passed the time wraith for the fog to lift by watching the lobster boats coming and going. The season is almost over so they are bringing in the last catches and some have already pulled their traps and we're bringing them in. A game of scrabble and an afternoon movie passed away a few more hours. Here we sit. Dinner was cheese, peanut butter, crackers and an apple. This was lunch. Hope to head out tomorrow. Thanks Cliff and Justin for the weather reports. Really appreciate it.

Loop Day Six

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We are anchored at the commercial fishing pier. The season for fishing crab is over. We are tied off on the wall  You can see where we are. One of the fishing boats left. Will climbed up the ladder and this is what he saw… We watched them bring on the jetty wall.There was a diver down  and guys doing welding. Will cleaned off our anchor. And we decided to go ashore. Most of the fishing boats were up on dry land for the season. The Queen Anne's Lace was blooming. The fishing buoys were all stored away. Everything is in French. This church was built in the early 1900s. You can tell this is a shipping town. There is a University here. This is how we found out that they fish for crab here. We found a marine store and bought a new windshield wiper for the boat; the ladies were so nice they gave Will a souvenir cap.  They called the marina for us and found that they sell fuel so we thought that at high tide we would go around to the marina.. Next stop was Tim Hortons for some i...