August 1 and 2 -- High/Dix Anchorage to Camden, 13 Miles; And Lay Day There

Extremely heavy fog at 5:30 in the morning; it cleared by the time of our 11 a.m. departure. No wind for the first part of the journey, through Owls Head Passage, but for the last six and a half miles the wind came up from behind us  and we were on almost a dead run at speeds of 5 to 6 knots under genoa alone. More than an hour of beautiful silent moderately fast sailing. Passing Rockland we saw the USS Hue City, the biggest thing in the harbor, for the celebration of that town's Lobsterfest and to promote good will for the Navy. Then we passed close ahead of this lovely passenger schooner:

Our mooring at Lyman Morse Wayfarer Marina in Camden is in the furthest possible location from the dock, and inner harbor, around the corner in Sherman Cove. ($42 /night). At it was quite sleep-deprivingly rolly the first night but not as bad the second. 

We have visited Camden several times before and this time with the heat about 90, we declined to climb to the top of Battle Mountain, which towers over the town. Instead we did laundry the first day and used the marina's free courtesy car to provision the second. Lene got beauty treatments while I read in the library.



The inner harbor from the library:

The highlight of our visit was a performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on the lawn behind the library. This picture before the seats got filled. A lovely imaginative staging with singin (including 20th Century songs) added before both acts, at the end and during the play.

Now on to Rockport, a mere five miles away.