The good weather from yesterday keeps up and we can have breakfast in the cockpit again.  With the long afternoon yesterday we make quick breakfast and get under way. We aim for “Southwest Harbour” on Mt. Desert Island some 50 miles further east.  Initially we need to motor for three hours but then the wind picks up from SSW, 8-12 knots.  Again we wiggle through winding passages; when going east we make good speed when more northerly we slowly glide through this magnificent sea scape.  Up here far to the north (as a Swede would say, Americans say “down east”!) the land is rising and we see high, woody hills inland.

Southwest Harbour turns out to be a bit more developed than Boothbay.  Here, the yacht maker “Hinkley” has a factory and there is a large marina at the bottom of the bay.  We try to get in contact with harbour “authorities over telephone and VHF to no avail.  So, on the advice of a fellow boater we pick up a vacant buoy and hang on to it.  Subsequently, skipper calls “US customs and border protection in Houlton, Maine”.  We are obliged to report every new location so they can keep track of us…!! (Houlton, Main, we google, sits way up north, inland, exactly on the Canadian border).

The lobster pier” turns out to be a lively shack-like contraption with a crowd (!)  We suspect more paper plates and opt for the restaurants a mile down the road.  Here we find “Coda”, an elegant place with a strange small, tapas-like menu.  We eat some strange but well-tasting dishes although perhaps not the “haut cuisine”.

Long walk and dinghy-ride later we have coffee in the cockpit.  Stars in the sky and very calm water.