Bill & his 2 slugs :)

       Bill and his 2 slugs. Smile guys!

Since the wifi is so slow I am only posting one picture.

Today the morning started out with a surprise cup-o-tea from a sailor Bill and his 2 slugs. (not to get confused with leeches as in MN) The other two guys get to hang out on his boat with him every year for a week or so. Bill asked if we knew where we were going… Well we only have ideas.  He was happy to fill out heads with more ideas!  His first idea was to sail to Monhegan Island! Great choice!

We set sail after we walked around the small island of Damariscove.  What a peaceful and beautiful walk.  There is a tiny museum there from way way back actually they say they are the first settlement. I believe them too.  The houses/cottages were old, some still standing and in use. The trail was magical with a prairie like feel.  Wild flowers of all kinds! A bird nesting area – so birds of all kinds. In the middle of the island was a fresh water pond! Who would have thought it!

We sailed a quiet sail the kind my sister would have loved to be on … if only we can summons up the right winds. We were on a 45degree angle to the wind, 8 knots of wind, but making 4 knots pretty good.  The boat glided through the water as graceful as us synchronized swimmers!

Bill taught us that you can “borrow” moorings if you don’t leave your boat so if the mooring owner comes you just hop off and thank them.  But here in Monhegan there are only private mooring balls so you go and ask Sherm Stanley and he will hook you up.  He just pointed to the ball he wanted us to attach to. With as little words as possible he communicated the mooring ball to be on.  Yahoo our first free mooring ball! Wow Maine is so nice!

The island is a mile by ¾ mile and has huge cliffs on the east.  You can see sea as far as the eye can look.  Half of the island is private and “untouched” just for visitors to walk the trails.  The Wyeths … Andrew wyeth and Jamie Wyeth famous artists, you would know who I meant if you saw the famous girl in meadow sitting down and her back to you… anyway they bought it and have it for visitors use. How nice is that?

We have much to explore! We walked the tallest cliffs of the outer islands call white head cliffs.  (white cuz the birds poop on them and they are white!) tomorrow we will pack a lunch and off we go.  We are staying two nights.  There is no AT&T of course so you can’t call me… but our wifi Verizon can almost squeek out a signal to post this blog.