It was a quiet morning when we awoke, thankfully no fog as that would have prevented us from moving on. We sailed off anchor in super light winds, only to find no better winds our of the anchorage, and so we ended up having to motor after a short bit in order to make any way.

It was a nice day, and motoring was going along fine. At home I often like to sit on the foredeck while we motor along with the autopilot on, but unfortunately it's not something you can do in Maine, as there are lobster pots just about everywhere, and so you really need to stay at the helm and pay attention to avoid running over them. They are annoying, but as I've read, they are a small price to pay for the joy of sailing in Maine, which has largely been true.

As I sometimes do when we are going along, I like to click around the map and see what is out there that we are sailing by. Lots of places to see in Maine and this was one of those days. We happened to be cutting by Eastern Egg Rock which is a tiny island that reintroduced Puffins back in the 70's. Apparently there are a whole bunch of nesting pairs there today, but we didn't see any unfortunately.

Next we were sailing by Seguin Island, which I noticed had a mooring field in the bay. Looked it up, and I guess you can moor up and tour the island. So we diverted course and decided to do just that. I'm glad we did, because it was a very neat stop over. We got a mooring (very close to some rocks, but seemed secure enough), and rowed ashore. It was high tide and beaching the dingy on the rocks with some waves was challenging, but we did make it and pulled the dingy up a bit and secured it.

We hiked over to the pebble beach and took in some very epic views of the atlantic at large from shore. It certainly seems bigger when seeing it from shore with the giant waves breaking on the rocks. It had seemed quite quaint while we were on it. The island was really beautiful, and we hiked up the path to the top of the island where the lighthouse was.

I guess at some point the lighthouse was deemed unnecessary anymore and was scheduled to be decommissioned, but a group of volunteers got together and took over stewardship of the island from the government and run it to this day. There is a very well put together museum at the lighthouse, and people live on the island over the summer giving tours of the lighthouse to guests. We were greeted as we made it to the top to a lovely tour of the lighthouse and access to the museum. The couple that were staying there had actually attempted a similar sailing passage that we were doing (out the st lawrence) but ended up abandoning the trip half way through and selling the boat. We aren't at that point yet, but I guess that does happen. They have been volunteering at the lighthouse for the past 12 years I think she said. Living on the island with all it's history and natural beauty is very romantic. But I suspect it's also a lot of work to maintain and tour guests etc. But after everyone leaves, having the island to yourself must be very special.

From the lighthouse we could see off in the distance fog rolling in, and so we knew we better get moving. One thing we are not very well equipped for is fog, and so we try to avoid it as much as possible. We got underway and shortly after the island was covered in fog. But we got lucky and the fog only slowly followed us in, as we made our way back inland to a nice little anchorage well out of the wind. We got the anchor down, and relaxed for a bit before making dinner and getting to sleep early.