Yeah! We have finally started moving again! We made a good decision letting the waves
calm down yesterday and our travel in the Chesapeake Bay was again accomplished
with very little waves or wind. We had
researched a couple of places to anchor out between Deltaville, VA and
Solomons, MD (where we ended up for the night), but weather forecasts for the
next few days encouraged us to travel further today.
Although
we are not on a schedule, we do have reservations for the Memorial Day Weekend
at Knapp’s Narrows Marina and Inn. This
is the marina where Greg and Kate on Grianan
will be spending the summer. Holiday
weekends (actually most any weekend) on the Chesapeake can be EXTREMELY busy
and many of the marinas get full. We
didn’t want to take the chance on not having a slip for the long weekend, so we
made the reservations. Stopping in
Solomons tonight puts us in a good position for getting to Knapp’s Narrows no
matter what the weather throws at us.
Because
of all the recent poor weather, a good travel day like today had lots of
boaters out on the Bay. In addition to
the usual pleasure boaters, we also encountered the menhaden fishing fleet and
the USS Carney, a Navy Arleigh Burke-class
destroyer. The menhaden fishing fleet
sails out of Reedville, VA. The menhaden
fishing industry was brought to Reedville in 1874 by Elijah Reed. There is one remaining factory in town, owned
by Omega Protein. They process 100,000
metric tons of the fish per year. We do
not eat menhaden, but they can be found in products from fertilizer to vitamin
pills. Reedville is the second largest fishing
port in the U.S. in terms of fish landed.
The
town of Solomons is truly a boating community with many marinas along the
shores of Back Creek. Beth from Kismet arranged for ten Looper couples
to meet for dinner at one of the marina restaurants – we came from three
different marinas in the area and enjoyed great food, drinks and conversation.
Miles: 54.9 Bridges: 0 Locks: 0
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one of the boats in the menhaden fishing fleet - they are not fishing
in this picture, we assume they are looking for a good spot to let out their nets |
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| another boat in the menhaden fishing fleet |
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| USS Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
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| Smith Point Lighthouse |
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| Point No Point Lighthouse |
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| the north shore at the mouth of the Patuxent River |
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