We were up early and pulled away from the dock in Gore Bay just after 6 AM. Our friends on Currently were leaving as well and took this photo of us as the sun was coming up. That morning, six weeks into our adventure, we really felt like we were "starting" our Great Loop. That's because we were finally leaving our familiar cruising grounds and heading for unknown territory.
For the first time ever, Sea Clef was going to cross the border into the United States! It seemed so strange to cross into the USA without a lineup anywhere. In fact, the only line was on our charts and we were debating about when we actually crossed the invisible border. How did we go through Customs? We used the CBP Roam app on Cam's cell phone. Eventually, we had a video interview with a Customs Officer and then we were cleared. Easy peasy!
After arriving in Drummond, our friends from Currently invited us to go out for dinner, which was perfect since we had no food on board. We rented a beater courtesy car from the marina for $20; a 1970's GMC pickup truck. We felt like we had borrowed our Dad's old car! We had a nice dinner out and on our way back we saw a deer and a sugar bush. The sugar bush was a first for Currently so we got to share all of our Canadian Sugar Bush knowledge with them.
The weather was not great the next day but we were able to get our groceries and we had a ride through town. This time we saw a Fawn and two Sandhill Cranes. Some of our neighbours left, so we decided to switch slips and fuel up and get a pump out. Unfortunately, we had a miscommunication with each other on the way out of our slip and we bumped the dinghy hard into the dock, adding a little twist to our dingy davit system! Bummer! We've been told that it should be okay to use and it seems to be working. With this much travelling, I guess these things should be expected.
The next day we left, heading toward the Les Cheneaux Islands, also called "The Snows". We ended up going all the way to Hessel as we changed our plans due to expected high winds. After we were securely tied up in Hessel, we went for a huge dinghy explore of Les Cheneaux Islands. There are a lot of beautiful cottages and the scenery and towns were lovely. The highlight of going to Hessel was the Les Cheneaux Culinary School Restaurant. The students go to school from September to May. They get a week off and then they start a three month internship from June through August. It was a very tasty night!
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