Through The Weather Window
A spectacular sunset from our dock at the Safe Harbor Marina in Rockland Down East to Mount Desert Island When the weather window opens you go through it. Such was the case for leaving Rockland to take a short cruise over to Mount Desert Island and poke around a bit in Acadia National Park. It’s a mere 35 miles from Rockland to Southwest Harbor as the crow flies, but the navigable route is more like 50. A good bit of it is stressful through fields of lobster buoys. We broke up the trip by staying at Isle au Haut. There is a narrow channel at Isle au Haut that is called a “thorofare”. These cracks in the rock islands provide shortcuts between the larger water bodies and provide safe sheltered places to anchor. We picked up a free guest mooring ball to spend a quiet night off Flake Island across from a private club. Only 92 folks are full time residents of Isle au Haut and their livelihood is tied to the sea and summer vacation homes. Hal...