Jersey Shore

Tuesday 5/24/11     We decided to stay another day in Baltimore to catch up on laundry and pick up a few groceries. Since the laundry is in the basement of the Rusty Scupper restaurant we thought it would be a good way to kill two birds with one stone. Laundry is laundry but lunch was great! The down side is the walk from Tourist to the Scupper toting the laundry. The up side is the walk. Right at the base of Federal Hill and along the edge of the harbor.

Flag over Federal Hill.

Looking at Tourist with Baltimore in the background.

Wednesday 5/25/11     7:30a.m. and the lines were cast off. We idled out of Baltimore and under the Francis Scott Key Bridge headed back to the Chesapeake.

Francis Scott Key Bridge.

The bay was calm as we entered and headed north. We made a quick stop in Bohemia Bay for fuel and then back out into the narrowing upper reaches of the Chesapeake. It wasn't long before we entered the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal where we we picked up speed courtesy of the tide moving in our direction. A few miles in and we pulled into the harbor at Chesapeake City to anchor for the night. This is one of the few places to stage for the next leg to Cape May, NJ. By the time we went to sleep there were 9 boats anchored plus a few more at the free dock. Our position enabled us to see the canal and any traffic passing by.

Chesapeake City Harbor before most of the boats showed up.

Ship passing Chesapeake City.

Thursday 5/26/11     After one of the calmest nights at anchor we've had we pulled out onto the C&D Canal and headed East enjoying the calm water and passing under the bridges spanning the canal.

Bridges over the C&D Canal. Notice the calm water.

They have lights on both sides of the canal the entire length of it.

Once we hit the Delaware River it was hard to imagine Washington crossing it while standing in the bow of a rowboat. The predicted 1 foot waves were more like 3 to 5 foot on the nose. Not terrible but we needed to hang on when moving about to answer the call of nature. Spray covered the boat as we plowed through the waves. The short video doesn't do justice to the amount of spray we were generating.

Delaware River.

72 miles after leaving Chesapeake City we pulled into the Cape May Canal passing the Cape May Ferry terminal and ending up at Utsch's Marina to spend a couple nights.

Cape May ferry terminal.

Utsch's Marina. Cape May, NJ.

Now let's find Snookie!