As
I mentioned in the blog a couple of days ago, it isn’t far from one terrific
place on the Chesapeake to another and today is a perfect example. We traveled less than ten miles from the
beautiful town of St. Michaels (where we would stay longer if the dock fees
weren’t so high) to a beautiful anchorage on the Wye River. Dividing Creek is about six-tenths of a mile
long from where it leaves the Wye River to its end. There are a number of small coves along the
creek and we are just barely inside of one of them – this gives us plenty of
swing room in case the wind changes directions (and it always does). There are two other boats in the creek when
we arrive and one more comes in after us, but we don’t feel crowed in the
least.
The
neat part about this anchorage is there are no houses around, just beautiful
trees and awesome wildlife. We’ve seen
turkey vultures, osprey, blue herons, turtles and rays and we have heard fish
jumping and the songs of lots of other birds.
We plan to be here for two nights, so we will launch the dinghy tomorrow
and explore a bit.
Miles: 8.2 Bridges: 0 Locks:
0
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Bennett Point at the entrance of the Wye River - this is a private
lighthouse, not an official aid to navigation |
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| entering the Wye River |
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| our anchorage in Dividing Creek |
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| looking across Dividing Creek from where Boreas is anchored |
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| two turkey vultures on a dead tree |
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| a blue heron fishing in the shallows |
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