- 48.9 miles
- 5 hours 33 minutes
- 8.8 mph average speed
- 3-11 Mohawk winds
Another boat, Blue Moon, left Leland behind us and sent this picture of Star Dust and Perfect Match:
Leland is a cute little beach town with several nice shops. The Leland Historic District, known as Fishtown, is adjacent to the town and has been a commercial fishing district for over a century. Fishtown is comprised of small fishing shanties and related buildings such as ice and smoke houses built in the early 1900’s. It is now a working fishery and home to several fishing charters.
The Leland Champion Cottonwood Tree, planted in 1901, watched over the entrance to Fishtown for more than a century. It has a 20 foot circumference, 76 inch diameter and stood 100 feet tall before it was taken down in 2011. Champion Tree Project International created sixty clones of the tree in 2008 by snipping off newly grown buds and using them to make genetically identical copies.
We chartered a fishing boat with Misty and Darrel and caught some trout. We had the fish cleaned and took four of the fillets to The Cove restaurant which they later cooked for our dinner and we took the rest of the fillets to our boats to freeze. We selected four different preparations and the restaurant brought the fish on a platter so we could all share the different preparations. They were all delicious!
There are a lot of sand dunes along the coast:
We saw this amphibious car parked in front of the restaurant and then saw it cruising in the canal as we were eating dinner.
View of Fishtown above the Leland Dam which was built in 1854 and raises the water 12 feet.