Into the Chesapeake headed to, not sure.

It’s Saturday morning and an absolutely beautiful day here in the northern Chesapeake.  We spent last night in the basin at Chesapeake City, a spot that I have visited a number of times.  It’s a very quaint historic village complete with a Tiki Bar.   While the old homes look the part of early america, I expect that the Tiki Bar at a local resort wasn’t there when barges were being pulled along the canal by horses.  Just a guess.

The view this morning of the bridge and “town” was quite a sight.    A bit earlier in the morning we were treated to a rainbow over the bridge.  Nice juxtaposition of arches.  Don’t I just have all the luck?   However, I didn’t want to push it by heading out to find the pot of gold.  Perhaps I already have but I don’t want to jinx it by chasing rainbows. Yesterday we caught the tide going up the Delaware River and enjoyed a windless run on perfectly calm waters all the way, over 50 miles, from the ocean to the canal.  The tide really rips and the 2kt current made our run up take hours less than it would have been if we had gone against the tide.  I wasn’t pushing the engine very hard so our 6.5 kts combined with the tide pushed us at a respectable 8.5 kts.  To buck the tide would have reduced our progress to 4.5, a 50% reduction in speed.  That would have been painful.

Along the way we passed a number of really beautiful lighthouses.  Today’s lights aren’t nearly as scenic.  To say that “they don’t make them like they used to” is certainly an understatement when it comes to government structures.  So, let me get this straight, less spending on elegant architecture and more on something else. What might it be?  No wait, I remember, free stuff for everyone?   Can you say entitlement programs and I don’t mean that we are entitled to nice looking lighthouses.  Never mind.  Perhaps I’d better quit while I am ahead. Good thing that the founding fathers liked architecture and light houses in particular.

Anyway, these are nice ones, indeed.  It was barely getting light when we passed this one. This one looks like it came right out of a Harry Potter book.  Pretty ornate.  You almost expect to see a wizard standing on the balcony summoning up a water spout. The day broke as we entered the river mouth, with a fabulous sunrise reflecting on the water.  It doesn’t get any better than this. So were are we headed today anyway?  Not sure exactly but I do need to get closer to Annapolis so my crew can make their bus on Monday.  However, with the boat show in town, the powerboat show that is, I may have trouble finding a spot to anchor.  The show breaks up on Sunday night so perhaps I can grab a spot as one group leaves and the other arrives.

Wish me luck.  This is just so great…