We have been in Solomons for a few days now. It is getting late in the fall and the weather is starting to show the winter pattern of cold fronts every few days. That means more wind than we want, so we are hanging out here. It is a pleasant harbor with lots of marinas and anchoring space. The geese and ducks tend to be in the less travelled areas, but Andrea was tickled to get to meet some begging swans. They like tortilla chips. The cool air means that I've been wearing long pants for days now and even a heavy shirt from time to time.
We have good internet and phone connections, so have been getting some business things out of the way. I moved everything out of the stock market for a while. We will find out later if that was correct.
We had a great sail coming down here, hitting 8.5 knots at times. There hasn't been enough of that. We only have a few more stops before we will be back in Norfolk and heading back down the ICW to Oriental, NC for the winter. We'd like to see Jamestown, Yorktown, and Williamsburg - history is all over the place around here. If we had more time, going up the Potomac to Washington would be terrific, but it's getting late.
When we were anchored in Trippe Creek above Oxford, it was glassy smooth at sunset. And then a powerboat made some waves. It looked cool.
We went down to La Trappe Creek off the Choptank River (setting for Michner's "Chesapeake") and anchored behind this sandbar in a sheltered cove.
Here is the bottom of that cove. There were thousands of geese hiding back behind that island. We spent a few days here waiting out bad weather.
Here is a lighthouse we passed while sailing down to Solomons.
Just before we got to Solomons we were catching a fleet of sailboats. We mostly are alone, so the company was nice.
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