Bay de Verde

I think I’m meant to write some technical spiel about the sail at this point - but so long as we’ve made it in one piece without freezing I’m good with that! It was a comfortable journey and a Deja vue moment arriving in this very basic fish factory harbour. Quinlans processing plant dominates the town and employs hundreds of Philippine workers. Processing snow crab before moving on to cod. There’s cloud of gulls feeding on the fish waste outflow we part with the bow and they cloud around us as we enter and leave port. ( Pas did advise keeping a hat on - at this stage I had a headband and 2 hats on, probably adequate protection

There’s a good rugged headland hill above the town & it’s a beautiful evening so we climb. An ice berg 1/3 side of when Austen passed a week ago with Ron sits in the bay and we spot sea eagles circling overhead - having a territory squabble with some gulls.

Austen stops and I walk slightly higher spooking another eagle off her nest giving Austen a direct line of sight to the ledge the scruffy nest balances precariously on. Before long she’s back, with a “fish” which turns out on closer examination of the photo to be an unsuspecting puffin. Some great photos once we can get them off the big camera!

We leave early the following day to round the headland.Read more