Johnstown Harbour Bras d’Or Lake NS Canada

Leaving Little Harbour

We had a quite civilised departure from Little Harbour, leaving at 1020 on Sunday 26 August.  The plan was to sail back to St Peter’s where we would wait for a favourable wind to start our transit back along to south coast of Nova Scotia to Halifax.

However, such plans are made for changing.  After just an hour under sail the wind died.  On the plus side our slow speed meant that we could look at the surprising number of jellyfish passing us by, but we didn’t really fancy motoring the 2 hours to St Peter’s.

The narrow entrance to Johnstown Harbour

Instead we diverted to another location used by the Royal Nova Scotian Yacht Squadron Rally, Johnstown Harbour. Like Little Harbour this also has a narrow entrance but, unlike Little Harbour which is essentially circular, Johnstown Harbour opens out into a wide area with a number of bays to choose from for a night stop.

We passed several very pleasant houses overlooking the bay and made our way all the way up to the furthest corner.

There we anchored, almost in solitude and out of sight of all the houses, with just the irritating wine of a jetski disturbing our sundowners.

Fortunately the intruding jetskier had a short attention span and soon stopped driving around in circles leaving us to enjoy the peace and quiet of another lovely Nova Scotian anchorage.

Johnstown Harbour, Bras d’Or Lake, NS, Canada