Day 327 – Tilghman Island, MD to St. Michaels Marina, St. Michaels, MD - May 28, 2012

Today was an amazing day to be out on the Chesapeake Bay.  It is Monday of the Memorial Day weekend and all the boaters who spent the weekend away from their home marina were on their way back home today.  So there were literally hundreds of boats moving from one harbor or marina or anchorage to another.  The way boats travel here seems so different from what we see on Saginaw Bay.  Here there are so many creeks and rivers that feed the Bay that boats can be anywhere, headed in any direction.  In the Saginaw Bay we all depart from the mouth of the Saginaw River and return back to that same place.  And here the distances from one great place to the next are very small.  In our last few moves around Chesapeake Bay we have been in three marinas and an anchorage and we’ve moved less than 35 miles each day (most days much less).  Our closest place to go from Bay City is Tawas which is over 45 miles away.  It is easy to see why people want to spend time cruising here.

Our stop tonight is St. Michaels Marina.  Part of the reason we are at a dock tonight (and will be tomorrow night) is that the heat index today was 96 degrees and is supposed to be the same tomorrow.  We decided that a dock where there is electricity and air conditioning would be a good decision.  We plan to be at anchor later this week after this heat breaks.  We took a stroll through town and visited some shops this afternoon and we will do more tomorrow.  The marina has been absolutely packed for the last three days (because of the holiday weekend), but it is now quite quiet – there are less than a dozen boats here tonight – that’s just the way we like it.

            Miles: 22.5      Bridges: 0        Locks: 0

two osprey feeding their young

passing Tilghman Point on the way to St. Michaels

the view from Boreas at St. Michaels Marina

another view from Boreas - looking across the harbor



one more view from Boreas - looking toward town