Thursday July 19 off to Hawkesbury NS Day 6

We hit the road and could travel over mostly 4 lane roads. The tar was patchy and bumpy like our winters give us. We paid 1.05 CN dollars a liter for gas, best deal we found here. That is about 3.60$ per gallon. We got into town and headed down to the wharf for the tall ships. The largest was a 284 ton three master carrying a crew of 33. There are some regulars on the crew, but there are quite a few for only two weeks. A gal from Chicago, 43 told us another lady 69 years old had been on since November, but she was only there for the two weeks. We toured the boat; alternate power was a diesel engine. But a neat vessel. Shirleen could not get over the many coils of rope that were used in the sails. We got to look over the upper deck and could see beneath decks was cramped. There were three other vessels. Two newer one with two sails and only two visible boat hands. Then there was an old maybe 60 foot two sail boat, looked like an old seafaring war ship. The men looked tough from the sea and life they live. We were able to watch them set to sea. As they were pushing off, the boats man, got his lines undone in the wrong order. This caused the captain to swear profusely at him but the worst was yet to come. This hand was on the pier and the boat was getting further away so he was pulling it in and the captain was worried about hitting the pier with the bow, then he realized the hand was too far from the boat to get on and he pulled it closer then the captain said get on. Well the deck hand jumped into the bat but grabbed for a rope net line and fell against the rail of the boat. He had a tough time getting to come to and a couple guys grabbed him and hauled him on board. He looked pretty peaked and walked around the deck trying to shake it off. Not sure what happened next as they went to the other side of the bay.

We decided to eat at the restaurant attached to the hotel. With a town of 3,400 people not much of a selection for restaurants. They had a special on wings, an 8 rating, good onion rings and four of them had fish and chips, heavily breaded haddock with French fires. I, Jerr, had a pan fried haddock fillet with fresh fried veggies and sweet potato fries. I made the best choice this time. Along with some Stella Artois beer a good meal everything considered. Our mission tomorrow is to see if the McDonalds across the street has A McLobster roll sandwich. We have it on creditable tales, Jim’s brother Mike, said they have them and we did see a sign stating that fact. But we will have to check it out further. Tomorrow we head to the north east part of Nova Scotia, Sydney and come back around the north side of the inner lake. jerr