One of the facts of life on a boat is that you are at the mercy of nature, so here we sit in Cape May waiting for the wind and waves to subside so we can make our way to New York. We have two choices from here - one is bad and the other is worse. We can creep our way up the NJ inland waters as far as Manasquan, but it is very shallow and running aground is a distinct possibility. The other option is to head out in the Atlantic, which with NE 15-20 with gusts to 25 and 4-6 ft seas, would be definitely uncomfortable - if not dangerous. I guess we could opt to wait here for a better forecast, but it looks like we'd be waiting almost a week. So, tomorrow we plan to set out on the inland route. Stay tuned to see how it turns out!
Since our last update, we have visited two of our favorite Chesapeake Bay towns - Annapolis and Baltimore. We spent a quiet Sunday evening on a mooring just inside the Spa Creek bridge in Annapolis. Monday morning we motored through rain showers to Baltimore, where we docked at Harbor East Marina. About 30 yrs ago we lived just south of Baltimore and the entire Harbor East neighborhood was non-existent at that time. Today it consists of numerous high-rise office and condo buildings with many trendy shops and restaurants. It is a short walk to Little Italy and Fells Point. The highlights of our Baltimore stop included lunch at Bertha's in Fells Point (famous for their mussels), dinner at Sabatino's in Little Italy, and an Orioles-Yankees games (which the O's won!). It took us a day and a half to cruise from Baltimore to Cape May, stopping overnight on the Conhansey River off of Delaware Bay. The big excitement on that leg was meeting a huge ship in the C&D Canal. Well, happy hour beckons, so that's all for now.
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Sunrise - Patuxent River, Maryland
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Chesapeake Bay's Thomas Point Light
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Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Sunset over Cohansey River
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Cape May, NJ
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