What happened to the HEAT!! Winter started to catch up to us again. I was starting to think I brought warm clothing for no reason. The temperature took all day to crawl up to 60. Supposedly the temps are going to bottom out at 46 degrees tonight. We’ll be lighting all of our oil lanterns this evening.The sun was out, so after doing some engine maintenance, we took a walk over to the Deltaville Maritime Museum and the Holly Point Nature Park. By the way, the park is on Mill Creek. There was a Mill Creek near Solomon’s. We stayed at a different Mill Creek a few days ago. How many Mill Creeks are there?

The museum and park were dog friendly and very interesting. Of course, I’m a big fan of wooden boats. I’m particularly interested in the boats that people worked in. Several years ago I read a book about Chesapeake Bay sharpies. It was great to see the real thing in person. The boats were largely built with flat bottoms to negotiate the shallow water of the bay. They were a lot easier to build than more curvy boats that involve steam bent frames and planks.

A power sharpy (and a dog).

A plethora of museum photos.

The park was also beautiful. It is a wooded grove along the creek. The paths are punctuated with bronze sculptures that were donated.

Someone got a lot of exercise.

We had access to WiFi at the marina.

Wait a minute! What’s this model doing down here?