Thursday, July 24, 2008 (Facheux Bay, Newfoundland).

As hard as it was to pull anchor and leave Brimball, the sky was too inviting to ignore. We headed out with a plan to run up to the Conne River to stop over at the local Mi’kmaq reservation to perhaps have an on-shore (second) breakfast, but the drive-by didn’t appear promising and there is no dock area there for a quick touch and go…, so we continued on to the Ultimate scenic route – Lampidoes Passage. While I’m not certain I could detail the substantive differences between Little and Lampidoes passages, I can attest they are beautiful. The scenery is relaxing not only to the eye, but to one’s very soul. The air is laundry-detergent-commercial pure; the landscape Maine on steroids – sort of lunar-Norway with a touch of Ireland [like Yellowstone filled with water!]. The water in the passages has been millpond flat so the ride is simply peaceful. Lampidoes dropped us again into Bay D’Espoir, and that turned into the mouth of Hermitage Bay closing off that circle back out to the SW coast. We passed over McCallum, Pushthrough, Rotten Row and Bonne Bay to our current anchorage at Allan Cove in Facheux Bay [the deepest fiord in North America]. We went from 91 feet of depth to a nail-biting 7’ before dropping anchor a stone’s through from cliffs on either side in a comfortable 12’ of 65 degree water…, it ain’t Maine, and it ain’t the Chesapeake.