Tuesday 11 September: Stonington to Fishers Island.
Thick fog this morning. Really? After 2 days of solid rain, now fog? The decks are soaked, but at least the dinghy is very clean after all the rain water sloshing about inside it with the swell movement.
We spend the morning onboard, waiting for the fog to lift. Which it finally does just before mid-day when it becomes a bright warm day. Beautiful! Enthused by the sun, we go ashore to visit Stonington village and fly the drone over it. It’s a very pretty place, with the usual quaint houses, boutiques, and cafes. But all very quiet. The season must be over. The only people we come across are a few retirees.
Back onboard Cloudy Bay, after a steak lunch, we have another drone flight off the deck, and happy with the footage we declare Stonington ticked.
Mid-afternoon we decide to move off the buoy and anchor somewhere. These particular mooring buoys are $60 per night which is the most we have ever paid for a mooring. Outrageous really, especially when we think of how the swell rolled into this bay. Now that our couple of days with rental car are over, we won’t be spending any more on this mooring!
We motor away from Stonington and a short distance across Fisher Island Sound. We anchor in a very peaceful bay surrounded by a golf course on the eastern end of Fisher Island. And we are the only boat anchored. Here we have a lovely sunset and fly the drone over the island in the wonderful evening light. So nice to see s/v Cloudy Bay anchored in such a beautiful bay all alone. Quite a contrast to the last 2 nights.
In the evening we enjoy the peace and no rocking. But we do have a small battle with mosquitos! Burning a mossie coil soon sorts that out.
Tomorrow we head to the “Forks” at the eastern end of Long Island. We expect a big swell from hurricane Florence to arrive soon, so we should be snug in there among all the islands and shoals.