Day Trip Up Baie Fine to the Pool

Baie Fine, a Canadian fjord, runs east and west up to the Pool.

We liked Marianne Cove so much, we decided to make it base camp for a few days. On the morning of our second day, we pulled anchor to take a day trip up the majestic Baie Fine, a fjord that runs east and west. Baie Fine is a total of about 10 miles long, narrowing abruptly for the last two-mile stretch to the confines of its end, “The Pool.”

We had a clear, calm blue sky day for a slow poke of a cruise making it that much easier for Lisa to capture the beauty of the rocky tree-lined cliffs to both our port and starboard. Once we got to within two miles of The Pool, we had to negotiate a shallow, narrow entrance, but the sights are well worth the trip.

We spotted this old tug as we left Marianne Cove for our day trip to the Pool.

At the entrance to the pool sits a cabin built on a huge rock. It was built years ago by Charles Evinrude (Evinrude engine fame), whose girlfriend was Lily Langtree. They had a 120′ yacht they brought to the Pool every summer and tied up to the dock in front of the cabin. They actually powered the cabin from the yacht

As we got closer to where we’d have to make a dog-leg turn to port, to get to the very end of Baie Fine and The Pool, I noticed something moving around on shore. We were a little too far away to make out what it was, so I grabbed the binoculars and sure enough, I saw a black bear. We inched closer, within 30 feet of shore, and watched the bear, never thinking it would stick around. As we idled just offshore, we watched the bear help himself to the fruit from a nearby bush for at least 15 minutes before it wandered off onto the beach. This bear sighting made our day.