GRAND LAKE is just that. Approached through the narrow little Jemseg River, the lake opens and expands before you, broad and inspiring. Grand Lake is the widest and largest of all the freshwater appendages to the Saint John River, created by a broad depression between subtle hills. It is distinguished not so much by its shoreline and anchorages as simply by water—open expanses of it—made all the grander in contrast to the rivers and creeks that lead to it.
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For somebody arriving from the river, it is sheer joy to crank up the halyards, feel the press of wind on the sails, and let the boat run off. The lake’s width of up to four miles allows for long lazy tacks on a warm summer afternoon, and its varied shoreline offers plenty to explore. Grand indeed.
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Grand Lake is entered through the Jemseg River and then through the long buoyed channel known as the “Bush Track” at the lake’s shallow southwest end. Douglas Harbour and the famed pocket called “The Bedroom” lie four miles away on the west shore. Grand Point Bar projects a surprising distance into the otherwise deep lake, but it is well marked if you don’t forget to look for it. Three wide coves—Whites, Mill, and Wiggins Cove—and deeper Youngs Cove make up the east shore.
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Past Cumberland Point, the lake divides into Cumberland Bay and Northeast Arm, each about 6 miles in length, tending, again, to the Northeast. Feeding the lake are Newcastle Creek and the Salmon River from the north and the Indian, French, and Maquapit Lakes through the microscopic Lower Thoroughfare near the Marsh Path.
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The lake’s charms have not gone unrecognized. Cottages rim the lake’s shores, two Provincial parks flank its waist, and pleasure boats of the inland type abound. But on Grand Lake, there’s plenty of pleasure to go around.
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The lake is notorious for thundershowers and summer squalls that its water mass tends to precipitate. The accompanying winds kick up a steep chop. The relative shallowness of the lake enables large seas of 6 or 7 feet to build up quickly, particularly in strong northeasterlies, which blow down the lake and break the waves in the lake's shallow end by the Jemseg River. Under these conditions, navigating the Bush Track either to or from Grand Lake is not recommended.
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