From Fortune, we sailed/motored 50 miles around Burin Peninsula and anchored in Little St. Lawrence Harbor. We then spent a couple days in Burin. Burin is a charming town with a boardwalk around the bay and very nice trail up to the highest point, called Cook’s Lookout Point.
From Burin, we went to Oderin Island, and then to Merasheen Island. In Merasheen, we found the charts inaccurate – it showed 20′ and we ran aground. Luckily, we were going slowly and we still had an hour of rising tide. We floated off and tried another direction but stopped at 11′. Luckily where we decided to anchor had good holding as we ended up getting 2 nights of 25+ knots of wind.
We then went to St. Kyran’s which was a very protected bay. The church was built in the 1920s and is an amazing bit of architecture. The community was relocated to more populous areas through the government’s resettlement program in the1960s and the church abandoned. Some community members celebrated the parish’s 150 year anniversary in the abandoned church in 2006. One can see the amazing view the parishioners must have had in the last photo below.
