Waking up we find a lot of activity in the harbour.  We have landed right when the biannual “Shark Scramble” take place.  They are expecting 19 big fishing boats that have been out for 48 hours fishing for shark.  The weight competition will take place right before our eyes and this is a spectacle when cannot leave.

So we get some additional provisions, Disa gets a Tilly hat (very chic) and at noon it all starts. Some 19 huge fishing boats have clustered around the harbour.  These bots are are 8 meters wide, 10-12 meters long with and anterior superstructure and a gigantic aft deck to carry lobster traps (max 280 / boat) in the season and now serves as a platform to spin for shark “for fun”.  They off-load 3 sharks each for weighting (300-400 pounds), scientific investigation by researchers down from Halifax and subsequently freezing and processing.  Nothing is wasted.  It is a spectacle with a crowd, despite a drizzling rain, seafood preparations served in a tent.

At 1330 hours we set of in the rain and fog.  No wind, as usual, and we motor around the southern tip of Nova Scotia. With radar and a GPS-plotter is is perfectly safe despite an outlook that is restricted to some 50 meters.  As if by magic, the fog ift as the ub sets an there is a spectacular show of light.  We wiggle in between two islands connected by a tidal bar and anchor up in 6 meters of water.  Perfectly calm and at 2130 we can finally sit down to some fine dining prepared by Disa and Magnus; pasta + tuna stew + wine…..!