We could have stayed in Chesapeake City another day. I could live off of the pizza and beer at the tiki bar. The brick oven pizza was one of the best I’ve had in a while. Dinner and several beers for $35. You can’t beat that! We’ll be back.

Army Corps of Engineers survey vessel

The view leaving the harbor

We headed down the C & D (with the current) into the Elk River. We actually had favorable currents all day. The scenery along the Elk was nice. A few houses. Mostly a very rural area.

We then headed out into the Chesapeake Bay. The bay greeted us with a perfect wind. I shut down the engine, hoisted all sail, and we flew down the bay. It looked like rain all day, but other than a shower in the morning, we stayed dry.

We ended the day at Swan Creek.

It’s a well protected anchorage. The bottom around here is a kind of gluey mud. Catalpa is looking pretty rough right now. I dump buckets of sea water on her deck every morning but the anchor gear keeps bringing up more goop.

The plan was to go into town (Rock Hall) but I think we’re going to push on tomorrow morning. Dinghy access to town is not good. We’ve been running low on provisions since Atlantic City but in a couple days we’re going to be in a spot where we can do a big resupply.

We were going to stop in Anapolis (a sailing mecca) but the Annapolis boat show is this weekend. We were informed by another cruiser that if we didn’t get there a few days early, we’d never get a mooring. Oh well, we don’t need a second boat. Maybe we’ll get over there on the return trip.