Deep Bay, Point au Roche State Park, New York: July 7, 2021
Marc- We awoke to a North wind of 10 knots. Breakfast on board and then we dropped our lines at 09:15. We kept close to the Vermont shore to minimize any wave action. It worked except for the area around Colchester Reef where we detoured to mid-lake. Our new to us stereo system worked well in the cockpit regardless of engine noise while motoring the entire trip. We took the short cut cup by Stave Island and the Narrows North of Providence Island. We did cross paths with s/v Bandelero. The most traffic we experienced was at the Cumberland Head ferry crossing passing between several fishing boats and two crossing ferries.
We arrived at Deep Bay at 01:00 and chose a mooring spot up with our club fleet. All boats except Spirit were unoccupied having taken a hike over to the Mooney Bay Marina to visit the Tiki Bar. We set off on the Western trails for a hike and went out to Middle Bay and then the main Park beach area. The trails were fine except for Sara sensing a skunk that required an immediate turn around on our part. We saw the lifeguards at the beach but no swimmers today. They reported 55 swimmers yesterday with the temperatures in the 90's. The weather was cool but fine except for one brief rain shower. Sara and I went for a chilly swim and saw a large carp beneath Lucy III.
The sun did come out later in the afternoon for our round raft appetizer / dinner. Great food and conversations were enjoyed by all. We all returned for a "firewater" treat at dusk. Patrick has a propane camp stove set up on floats enabling a floating campfire. It worked well for toasting marshmallows to make s'mores. Patrick somehow remained in the water for the entire time.
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