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Thurs. Sept 16 '65
9:15 pm Mrs. Gaskill's (?) on Grand Manan (North Head)

At last, Grand Manan Island, after a day of travel, & a decade of wishing.

The day started at Machias with breakfast at "Helen's" - overlooking a shored-up inlet of dark water, and mist between stands of trees.

A long, pleasant drive eastward, past highway scenery which would suddenly open up from a bridge onto views of striking beauty - estuaries, rivers, banks, islets, rain clouds, low-tide flats - all the way up to Calais, the border town, & next door, St. Stephen in New Brunswick. No customs difficulty at all.  On to St. Andrews, very Canadian - to a bank to exchange $50 Am. at 7+% credit. To a pub Shirewick(?) for lunch - French-Eng menu. To the boat - waited almost 2 hrs for a possible chance to get on (with car) - instead of going to St. John for departure tomorrow. Got on boat; Grand Manan III - large freighter-like ship - heavy, iron. A beautiful passage - [[strikethrough]] past [[/strikethrough]] out from the wide wide harbor, past Deer Isle (gulls!), then past Campobello - sunny, windy, smooth (as boat rides go) and a feeling of new waters & newness in everything. 2 1/2 hrs later - around the northern tip of Grand Manan - the cliff side long & dark & high - past a very beautiful promontory - treeless & long on which stood a lighthouse, into the harbor of North Head village, an undistinguished 

Transcription Notes:
Shirewick is the name of the pub (found a Shiretown) on web, hence the ? by Tam