Yesterday we kept ourselves close to the Sunset Watch campground, choosing to play the nearby Brûlée Point golf course, and visiting the adjacent bakery after our round to enjoy a fine lunch (including my first and probably only lobster roll on this trip). Brûlée Point reminds me a lot of my home course, Springbrook, in that it is a low-key and unpretentious sort of place, decently maintained but nothing fancy, with only nine holes which alternate hitting down toward the water, and then up away from the water — but you can see the ocean from every hole.

Below you can see your intrepid explorers in their natural element:

As you may recall from my previous post, the weather forecast was most concerning, as the remnants of Hurricane Phillippe were expected in this region tonight. Here is a photo of our campsite at Sunset Watch, complete with ocean view:

Fearful of the winds, we hooked the trailer to the truck last night, figuring it would be harder to flip them both over at the same time.

We decided to fill up the water tank and empty the the waste tanks last night before the storm hit, only to discover that our sewer hose was not long enough to reach the receptacle. However, our neighbor, noting our plight, supplied us with a longer hose to use, so — problem solved. This is completely in line with our every experience of the locals, who invariably are both friendly and helpful; we have had many enjoyable conversations with complete strangers on this trip.

At any rate, the storm arrived overnight, and while gusty, the winds never reached the ferocity we had feared, barely even registering an occasional tremor inside the trailer. This morning, we left for Yarmouth, an easy process in the rain since we had already hooked ourselves up last night. We drove through the rain this morning as we headed southwest from Tatamagouche and angled across the province to Lunenberg on the south coast, thence following the 103 up toward Yarmouth.

Tonight we are located at Camper’s Haven in Arcadia, a mere five miles from Yarmouth and the CAT ferry terminal. This is a pretty typical RV park, but we were fortunate to be given a spot with a decent view.

When we arrived here in the late afternoon, I checked the ferry website only to discover that their trips had been cancelled today due to heavy seas from the hurricane — so we were lucky in our planning. We plan a 7AM departure tomorrow so as to register for the ferry by 8:30AM. We have reservations tomorrow at the Bass Harbor campground, on the west side of Mt. Desert Island in Maine; I hope to post again from there. Thanks for following!