Sunset from Calvert Marina @ Solomon. Funny, I do not seem to get any pictures of sunrises.
Kind of like a Viking ship. It needs some bailing. Where is the crew?
Pat and Tiki on the bow of Richard and Tiki's boat, the Tadpole. Missed getting Richard in a picture somehow. They are fellow loopers from Tampa. We went out to dinner with them to Solomon's Restaurant, the same folks who own the Kingfisher Restaurant, where we picked some up excellent crab cakes the night before. Very excellent ones.
The Lady Sarah. We passed her going up the Chesapeake to St. Michaels. She was doing 20 knots, we were doing 22. Once we got into her wake we bogged down and had to get up to 25 knots to break the spell. Notice that she has a catamaran hull design. I believe she is driven by hydrojets at the back. This looks like the same kind of boat that serves Put-in-Bay, Ohio in Lake Erie from the mainland.
Pat in front of a small local winery. Needless to say, we came out with a few bottles. This was after we spent some time in the tasting room of a small but excellent microbrewery, the Eastern Shore Brewery. Some of their offerings from the brewery are in the bag Pat is holding.
Art and Susan with us on the ferry boat.
Art and Susan, reside mostly in the St. Michaels area but have a home one street over from us in Florida so we are part time neighbors. They picked us up at our marina and took us all over St. Michaels and by ferry to Oxford. They took us to the Masthead for a drink and a nice view of the bay, then to their yacht club, the Miles River Yacht Club and introduced us around and showed us their boat. The Miles River Yacht Club is beautiful and very successful. At present, they have about 900 members. The dining room was full and there was a lot of activity. As a grand finale, We went to Harrison's Chesapeake House for dinner. This is a popular family operated place, fishing charters, bed and breakfast, meeting facilities, etc. Numerous personalities and politicians from each party have been here, President Clinton among them. "Boss Hog" runs it and is an area icon.
Some information about the ferry service. The boat has a capacity of about 10 cars. It also has a small assortment of "ferry wear." I desperately needed a hat and was happy to find that I could purchase one on the boat.
This is a Skip Jack type of sailing fishing boat once in common use on the Chesapeake. It is in front of Harrison's as something to look at. I do not think it will be there forever given the amount of deterioration it has already suffered.
This is a canon from the Revolutionary War. St. Michaels was an early part of our nation's history.
This is a very unusual wood boat that is owned by one of the dignitaries of the area. It is obviously old and obviously very well maintained. It would be interesting to know a bit about her. This was at our St. Michaels marina, the Higgins Yacht Yard. Among other things, they have a first class wood working capability.
I intended to get a few Annapolis pictures in this post but it is getting a bit late. We spent last night (Friday) and tonight here in Annapolis. We will be leaving Annapolis in the morning for Baltimore. I will combine Annapolis and Baltimore in the next post.
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