Tuesday August 2

And it rained and rained and rained.... And the wind howelled! And the boat was safe and the boat was dry! (the window patch worked!) But it stopped raining and blowing and by 1:30pm the sun was out and it was a beautiful day.
We set out for a four mile hike through the Tombolo Trail. The beginning of  the trail was a dense forest of Eastern Hemlock, White Cedar and Balsam Fir with low ground cover of fern and a plant that resembled hosta but smaller. Along the way were markers describing what we were looking at. We came to an overlook where to the left was a bog and to the right was a Pine Savannah.
Continuing on we came out of the forest and we were looking at Jordan Bay, a beautiful 1 1/2 mile stretch of beach. Because of the red sandstone in these parts, the sand has a red hue to it.  The sand is fine and not to hard to walk in close to the water. We made it down the beach to a section where there was a separation in the beach by an inlet of water forming a stream.  We also spotted what looked like bear tracks! Yikes! I tried to talk Skip into just walking back the way we came but the man was on a mission! Me... not so much!
So we took our shoes off and waded across the stream and continued hiking. We soon found ourselves back in the forest and then walking across a foot bridge over the bog. There we could see wild cranberries. We picked wild blueberries along the path and ate those as we walked.  Very small and quite tasty!
Almost three hours later we found overselves back at the boat where we donned swimsuits and went for a dip.  This time I took the plunge! And it felt so refreshing! Not at all like the bathwater temperatures of our lakes at home. 
It turrned into a beautiful afternoon and evening.
We showered, took our "bag chairs" to the dock and watched the sun go down. And visited with our dock mates Billy and Ann (and their dog Gracie) and Julia and Troy.
It was a great day and such a blessing.
Love and blessings,
Margo and Skip

Pictures - Julia and Troy; Billy, Ann and Gracie; Skip on the dock; sunset on Stockton