On Tuesday morning we left Isle au Haut and headed northeast to McGlathery Island which is a favored spot in the Blue Hill Bay area. McGlathery Island is just south of Stonington on Deer Island. Getting to this anchorage was challenging since we got socked in with fog. Actually, it has been foggy up here since we arrived. Travelling in the fog is very stressful. There was only about an 1/8 of a mile visibility. While we almost at our anchorage, we ran into a couple of kids in a dinghy. They were following their own sailboat and ventured off to a beach when they got socked in and couldn't find their own boat. The girl was about 17 and the boy was only about 11. They had no radio or cell phone or any means of communication on them. After talking to them for a few minutes, we realized that their sailboat had just passed us going in the opposite direction. It was already lost in the fog. There was no way they would be able to find them. We couldn't leave them alone with no radio, charts, warm clothes or anything. We used our cell phone to call their crew. We informed them that we would tow the kids into the northern anchorage at McGlathery and they said they were going to the same place. Well, they didn't. They went to another anchorage on the western side of the island - we were at the northern anchorage. The kids had to dinghy to them, but at least the fog had lifted somewhat and they could follow the shore along to the other anchorage. Weird!
Our anchorage was quite nice. We went ashore, but it was difficult to find a trail to hike so we walked along the rocky shore - more exercise rock climbing! It was pretty neat though.
We had an excellent pork chop dinner and we were able to pick up the Red Sox game (too bad they can't seem to win at the Trop). On Wednesday, we planned to head out towards the Cranberry Islands which are south of Mount Dessert Island (and Bar Harbor). I'll post that part of the trip a little later.
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