Tuesday May 31: Chesapeake City, MD

Dave and Joyce will be proud of us - we pulled out of Kentmorr Marina at 5:34 this morning! We were very surprised at the amount of current in the Chesapeake Bay as it would seem that with such a large body of water, the tides wouldn't do much. Wrong! So in order to make the best use of the current, the earlier we started the better. As it was, the current turned against us about 2 hours into our 7 1/2 hour cruise. Another sunrise on the water! It's getting to be a habit :-) Chesapeake City is a small town on the C & D Canal - which we will transit tomorrow. It's hot again - as once more the entire east coast (including Ohio, I see) has record highs. The city has a dock which is free and electric for the day/night is $15. Great deal and tonight is 1/2 price pizza at the restaurant right in the harbor. Sounds like a winner to me. More pics from Chesapeake City tomorrow.

Shortly after leaving this morning we passed under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge - what an engineering feat! We've seen many bridges but this one has been the best in a long time. Double click on the middle picture to see all of the birds sitting on the bridge cables! This bridge is what opened up Kent Island to development - especially housing for people who work in DC or Baltimore (so says the guidebooks anyway). The osprey are back full force at the northern end of the bay. Almost every red floating buoy has a pair that is nesting. Not so much on the green buoys even though the only difference in them is the color. Interesting ......

Finally, we have reached the end of the Chesapeake Bay! It narrows down to a small creek through which the C & D canal was built. Severe weather is forecast for tomorrow afternoon so we may end up moving a short 15 miles to Delaware City before attempting to travel down the Delaware Bay as there is very little opportunity to get out of weather. And Delaware City sounds kind of fun anyway. May end up being there until Friday though. Oh well -