it got hot.

the beach at little bay

little bay. 

we left on sunday for little bay.  how can one not love little bay?  it really is one of our most favorite places.  the stars are always amazing at little bay because there are no city lights.  tom went deep sea diving to inspect our running gear and clean out any growth.  just a relaxing day all in all, like sundays are supposed to be, except that, of course, i had to work that night. 

drum point light replica

solomons

the potomac behaved during our crossing.  solomons is so different from our southern bay - it is POPULATED.  the AIS was going nuts with all kinds of alarms popping up from boats docked whose owners had left the AIS on.  we anchored in our usual spot in back creek between the museum and calvert marina.  unfortunately, my password for calvert marina's wifi wasn't working but tom was being social again, seeing boats familiar from the deltaville area and i knew he was going to go visiting so i told him to make himself useful and get the password from friends docked at zahniser's.  i am never social and most especially so on a hot day so i happily stayed aboard and went back to work.  luckily, a slight breeze came in that night or it would have been absolutely miserable at anchor.

la trappe creek.

from solomons, we caught the tide running up the Bay to the choptank river.  it was HOT HOT HOT the whole passage.  the air was just STILL.  by the time we got to la trappe creek, tom already had his swimming trunks on, supposedly for a second inspection of the running gear.  we ALL went swimming that afternoon - what a relief!  again, we were lucky to have a breeze come up later.  my social butterfly tom ended up talking with some guy on the beach who knew tom's brother in oxford.  that guy's friend showed up in another sailboat and he turned out to be a member of the board of governors at the cambridge yacht club and invited us to dock there for free, which was really nice of him.  cambridge is another one of those places that suffered greatly when the economy went south and both the municipal marina and the yacht club are looking for ways to stimulate the boater traffic through cambridge to generate some income. 

no wind AT ALL, la trappe

sunset at la trappe creek

cambridge. 

we SO enjoyed cambridge.  our purpose there was to get together with friends, steve and charissa, before they moved back to illinois, and we got to spend two lovely days and several meals with them.  cambridge is actually a nice little town that is struggling to bring itself back.  the municipal marina is huge and there are a lot of empty slips which is too bad because it is a very nice marina, not too far from town, and there are shops and restaurants for those so inclined.  it really does need to advertise itself better as a cruiser destination. lots of great old houses along the river for those interested in architecture and stuff like that.  unfortunately, unlike tom, between work and company, i didn't get to spend too much time exploring cambridge although i did manage a little bike ride around and found the farmer's market and wound up talking to a retired waterman for a bit.