Mystery Fins

Note: Several people have made me aware that the last blog post was not delivered properly to subscribers.  I believe the video I loaded at the beginning of the blog might have interfered with the email delivery of the entire post.  If you did not receive the whale video, or any of the pictures, please go to the home page (mvrighthand.blogspot.com) to access that post.  Today, I will try putting the video at the end of the post to see if the other pictures get delivered.

We made it to our northernmost destination...Bar Harbor, Maine.  The area is absolutely beautiful!  Navigating these waters can be a little stressful simply because it feels impossible for us to be so close to a mountain, coming out of the water, without hitting anything.  My brain has trouble trusting the charts, but so far they have been very accurate.  We really are in 125 feet of water, 150 feet away from a sheer rock wall.

All 3 agree...redundancy is our friend!

We made an interesting discovery on Saturday while traveling between Jewell Island and Seal Harbor.  The mystery started with the spotting of a fin sticking out of the water.  The fin didn’t behave like a ‘normal’ fin...it didn’t seem to be moving with any direction or purpose.  It just seemed to be bobbing along in the water.  We captured a video of that fin, but couldn’t see the creature to which it was attached.  These sightings went on most of the day, but we couldn’t figure out what animal we were seeing.  Finally, several hours into this mystery there was a ‘floppy fin’ dead ahead.  We put the engines in neutral, grabbed our cameras, and drifted up the the creature.

SUNFISH!!!

If you enlarge this picture and zoom in on his/her face you will see that he/she was surprised to see us...or quite possibly this fish is an expert at mimicking and is reproducing what our faces looked like at that moment😲 We were able to capture a video that will help you understand the bobbing/floppy fin description (I will  link it at the end).

We anchored on the west side of the ‘Bar’ at Bar Harbor. On Sunday we were able to launch the Whaler and go into town to restock our fruits and veggies. This was the first time we were on land in 12 days. Our timing wasn’t the best...

We were visiting Bar Harbor with 5,000 of our closest friends!  Luckily, none of them were interested in fruits and veggies from the market!

Here is our Sunfish in ‘action’