{"id":5919,"date":"2016-07-28T15:49:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T15:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=5919"},"modified":"2016-07-28T15:49:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T15:49:30","slug":"like-mother-like-daughter-were-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=5919","title":{"rendered":"Like mother, like daughter.\u00a0 We\u2019re in Maine!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Thursday morning and we are about 10 miles from our destination for today, Frenchboro on the island of Long Island. \u00a0\u00a0No, not the Long Island in NY the one in Maine.\u00a0 You can tell because the beaches are, well they aren\u2019t beaches at all, there granite and really, really bumpy and hard.\u00a0 Oh yeah, the water is 55 degrees too.\u00a0 \u00a0It\u2019s worth noting that the water temperature dropped from the high 70s overnight as we made our way north of Cape Cod into the cold waters of the Gulf of Maine.<\/p>\n

Yesterday Rodney, my crew for this trip, and I headed out of the Cape Cod Canal to make the 200 mile run across the Gulf of Maine to meet up with the Corinthians Cruise this weekend.<\/p>\n

I particularly like the \u201cdecoration\u201d on this bridge crossing The Canal, an otherwise unremarkable structure, it looks remarkably delicate with this adornment.\"7-28-16a I decided to time our departure from the canal so we\u2019d be off of Province Town during the day with the hope of seeing some whales.\u00a0 And see whales we did.\u00a0 The winds and waves, well there weren\u2019t any of either and it was very calm which made for easy spotting of whales in what seemed like every direction.\u00a0\u00a0 And, a few times we saw huge splashes in the distance as they rose\u00a0out of the water and landed with a thunderous crash.<\/p>\n

It was very tempting to head every which way to see these magnificent creatures up close.\u00a0 As we still had a long way to travel to get to our destination we opted to keep going with one exception.\u00a0 Not far from us and only about 4 miles north east of the tip of Cape Cod, we spotted two spouts, one small and the other large, rising perhaps a steamy 10\u2019 out of the water, \u00a0about a mile off.<\/p>\n

We headed toward them and enjoyed watching a mother and calf (daughter?) swimming lazily along.\u00a0 I cut the engine and drifted nearby.\u00a0 What a sight. \u00a0You could hear the rush of air as mom took a deep breath.\u00a0\"7-28-16aCalf or not, they were big and bigger. \u00a0 You can see her huge “fins?” showing white on either side. \u00a0\"7-28-16aIt is easy to imagine how these creatures were hunted to near extinction as it is very easy to see them \u201cblowing\u201d miles away.\u00a0 If it wasn\u2019t for the timely discovery of oil in Pennsylvania that made whale oil uneconomical, I doubt that there would be a single whale left anywhere.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t that make you want to hug an oil company?\u00a0 Hmm\u2026<\/p>\n

While we were enjoying our \u201cwhale encounter\u201d there were plenty of SUVs spending time in the \u201cwilderness\u201d at the very tip of The Cape.\u00a0 I don\u2019t get the whole \u201clet\u2019s drive out to the beach and sit by the truck honey.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t worry kids, you won\u2019t have to step in that icky sand, I\u2019ll leave the engine running and windows rolled up so you can stay cool and play video games\u201d.<\/p>\n

There was a mile or two of them lined up like birds on a wire.\u00a0 Go figure.\"7-28-16aAnd speaking of going to the beach, this tug, moored in The Canal, looks like business and I can imagine that they have been called upon to keep some stricken ship from finding their own special place on the beach too.\"7-28-16aAs I came on watch last night, I was treated to a rising moon.\u00a0 Amazingly, the new camera took a photo in such low light.\u00a0 \"7-28-16aDon\u2019t you just love image stabilization?<\/p>\n

All, and all, it was an unremarkable crossing with some sailing but a lot of hours on the engine.\u00a0 Today, we\u2019ll enjoy time ashore and go for a walk on Long Island.\u00a0 Tomorrow, off to South West Harbor to get ready for a week of \u201crah-rah\u201d with 75 of our closest friends.<\/p>\n

That will surely be a contrast to the solitude of mother and daughter humpback enjoying a lazy day on a glassy calm ocean.<\/p>\n

Well, I guess I\u2019d better sign off now as I am back in cell range and anxious to talk to Brenda.\u00a0 Besides, it\u2019s been more than 24 hours since we talked.\u00a0\u00a0 Actually, 25 \u00bd , to be exact, but who\u2019s counting.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s good to be in Maine again.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Thursday morning and we are about 10 miles from our destination for today, Frenchboro on the island of Long Island. \u00a0\u00a0No, not the Long Island in NY the one in Maine.\u00a0 You can tell because the beaches are, well they aren\u2019t beaches at all, there granite and really, really bumpy and hard.\u00a0 Oh yeah, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5927,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions\/5927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}