{"id":2285,"date":"2008-06-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2009-04-15T08:52:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T13:52:15","slug":"s_logs-dashew-dashew504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew504\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Bay, Newfoundland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro\">Cruising in Newfoundland: Interesting sights and people in Bonnie Bay, with news of polar bears.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/bonnie_bay2-6.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re tucked into Nedder Cove in Bonnie Bay, an easy if somewhat foggy 80 miles up the coast from Lark Harbour. Travelogs bore us, and we are leery of being too much like a travelog ourselves. But we keep running into interesting sights and people, so here is yet another report.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/bonnie_bay2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>It is Saturday, and the locals are out enjoying the lovely weather.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/bonnie_bay2-4.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The sun has been teasing us all day, occasionally burning off the low cloud cover.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/bonnie_bay-12.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The sun feels good, but the breeze off the water is cool, water temperature being a balmy 52F\/11C. Linda is taking some time off from our work routine. We&#8217;ve been moving fuel around today, balancing the boat for maximum efficiency. At slower speeds, like we are moving now, Wind Horse is more easily propelled with bow down trim. We&#8217;ve been catching up on photos, some video, e-mails, and the FPB 64 drawings.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/bonnie_bay-47.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>We chatted with this couple who are full time residents of the Bonnie Bay area. They think conditions are warm today. We discussed what winter was like and learned that our little anchorage is snowmobile territory come December. The ice begins to move out by April. They said the winter is generally OK, except for periods during December and January when it can be overpowering.<\/p>\n<p>We asked what they thought about global warming. The retort was &quot;What global warming? Climate change, yes. But around here the winters have been colder than usual.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/bonnie_bay-5.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>These two &quot;fishermen&quot; looked to be out for a Saturday afternoon ride, and stopped by. We asked if they would like to come aboard.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/bonnie_bay.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dwayne joined us for a look around. Turns out he and his compatriot are in disguise. They are actually Fish and Game patrolmen. That bulge on Dwayne&#8217;s right side is a 9mm Browning pistol. Amongst other things, we found out that polar bears work their way south from Labrador to Port au Choix, eighty miles up the coast (and they are common during the winter in St. Anthony on the northern tip of Newfoundland). The bears follow the sea ice as it freezes, hunting seals along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Dwayne&#8217;s suggestion for protection against polar bears is a shotgun with rifled three inch Magnum slugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cruising in Newfoundland: Interesting sights and people in Bonnie Bay, with news of polar bears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}