We left Baltimore on July 7th and that made us kind of sad. We had been there for a little over 3 weeks and really enjoyed it. Our friends Jan & Henry aboard Gypsy II (a Hunter 420 also) made us the BEST crabcakes when we were there (Chris ate 3) and it was nice to dinghy over to their boat for my "cat fix" -- they have 3 aboard --"Buster"(the Siamese) is just beautiful and my personal favorite but Jake and Casey are cute too of course! Jan was kind enough to take me to get the propane tanks filled and was a great source of Baltimore info! We're going to miss all of them!
The Miles River into St. Michaels (the last 10 miles of the trip) seemed like it went on forever and we were happy to finally turn into our slip at St. Michael's Marina (at $2.50/ft. yikes). We met Stan & Marianne Stallsmith (she used to work at Hatteras) for dinner during the 2 nights we were there. Marianne owns the Candleberry Shoppe in St. Michaels and was kind enough to accompany us to the Maritime Museum in St. Michaels which we thoroughly enjoyed. They also were kind enough to provide the "tour" of several historic homes in the area as well as a beautiful spot called the "Black Walnut Pointe" where we saw a doe and her 2 speckled fawns while driving out the the Pointe.
We left St. Michaels's on Thursday bound for Solomon's Island. We called Les & Sarah aboard "Wilde Mathilde" (a boat that we met at the very beginning of the trip in Ocracoke in May) and discovered that they too were bound for Solomon's so we had a reunion of sorts last night at the Tiki Bar. They are bound for Baltimore and points north but plan to be back in Annapolis for the October boat show. We're hoping that we talked them into at least stopping in New Bern for a long visit.
Tonight we are back in Dozier's Regatta Bay Marina in Deltaville. There was a Bristol 47.7 center cockpit advertised in Yachtworld that was from Deltaville and we wanted to take a look and "dream" a bit. We called the broker when we arrived and just our luck, the boat has been sold. It was only on the market for a very short while and had EVERYTHING...and after all, it was a BRISTOL.
We'll leave tomorow to try and make Norfolk so we can rest up and leave on Monday morning to tackle all the bridges. If we make Norfolk (it's 50 miles) in record time, we'll try to get through the bridges on a Sunday to avoid the limitations of the week day. I'm not looking forward to all the "dancing" we do while waiting for these highway and railway bridges to open. There's lots of container ships and other assorted boat traffic so we stay on pins and needles until we're well past this area.
We should be back in New Bern in a little over a week - weather permitting.
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