Thursday

May 18, 2017

Today it is 91 degrees, hot and sunny.  

As you see in the pictures, we are under blue sky's.  Just like Milwaukee the spring temps here are constantly changing.  We will be in high 60's by Saturday.  

We are enjoying the Georgetown area atmosphere.  Visited two large antique stores in Galena, MD and then went to Middletown, MD for a Super Walmart stock up.  The marina loaned us a Honda minivan filled with gas.  We believe it was one of the newest marina loaners we have used with only 48,000 miles on it compared to 270,000 miles on most of the loaners.

A few pictures of the Georgetown Yacht Basin Marina.

The pool and ice cream store don't open until Memorial Weekend.

Above are two pictures of the Kitty Knight House.  As the British advanced up the Sassafras River in May of 1813, they burned Georgetown, reducing it to ash, except for a church and two brick houses at the top of the Hill.  Catharine "Kitty" Knight refused to leave an invalid neighbor, defied Admiral Sir George Cockburn by declaring "I shall not leave.  If you burn this house, you burn me with it."  The British finally relented.  

Mike and Elwood walking toward the marina's small sandy beach.

Sunset on the Chesapeake 

Good Nite...

Tomorrow we have a short run to the Bohemia Bay Yacht Harbour Marina in Chesapeake City, MD.  This will be our staging area with fellow loopers, to take the Chesapeake Bay/Delaware Bay Canal, Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean run together.