My itinerary had us anchoring in Frank Bay today, but we decided that Ring of Rocks sounded more interesting. Rocks form a perimeter around the anchorage that dictates careful anchor placement, especially when the winds are blowing as they are today.
With the short days we’ve been having this week, there has been little engine time and so not much opportunity to keep the batteries charged. We could run the engine in neutral to charge them, but it’s better for engine longevity to run under load. To that end, we decided to visit both anchorages, starting with Frank Bay to have a look, and then on to Ring of Rocks to anchor.
It turns out to be fortunate that we were not intending to anchor in Frank Bay Nook because the Eagle’s Nook Lodge around the corner has a mooring buoy there that takes up what little space there is. The practice of placing an unused mooring buoy in the only available anchorage makes me wonder about etiquette in such cases, or even provincial law. Would they have had a right to object to us using it? Perhaps. I guess I could better see the justice of it where there is some harbor authority to approve private mooring buoy placements, but it is likely they placed it there without any such approval since the bay is fairly remote and they’re the only ones in there except for an aquafarm.
If we had tied to it, it is likely that they wouldn’t have noticed or cared. It’s even possible that they put it there for our use. Then again, if they needed to use it and we were already tied to it, things might have become unpleasant. It turns out to be an academic question because we just scooted in for a quick look around.
The day evolved from overcast to bright sunshine and blue skies while we were under way, While the wind has picked up, as we were told it would, the sun feels nice and a couple of us were inspired to take showers on the back deck. Clean hair feels awesome. And the batteries are charged!
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