Thursday, 6/12/08 - Solomons Island Anchorage off Mill Creek

Position: N 38 º019.942 W 076º26.645’
We had heard wonderful things about Solomons Island and were anxious to see it. It was indeed beautiful and our boat buddy from Ocracoke, “Aurora” had a slip there. We had intended originally to stay 2 days since we thought that with all the boats and all the marinas, there had to be bars, restaurants, entertainment and the like. There were a few restaurants but no entertainment was scheduled anywhere. We took an after dinner dinghy ride down Mill Creek to gaze at all the lovely waterfront houses. There was a couple fishing from their own pier. They invited us over for margaritas but we had our own wine so we sat and talked a while. They were on their way over to the tiki bar and we agreed to meet them there later. We dinghied over and spent about an hour with them hearing their story. To me, this has been the best part of the trip – meeting folks with “stories”. After a Bahama Mama, this tired crew wanted to get back to the boat to turn on the anchor light before it was totally dark.