OXFORD to ST. MICHAELS / Wednesday, May 18 to Thursday, May 19 (Days 118-119)

Admiral's Log:    8:35 am, Wed. 5/28/16
                         Temp:   56   Water Temp: 55
                         Winds:   3 mph
                         Speed:   8.6

Another overcast day. It's May and it's cold! This is getting awfully tiresome. We are suppose to following the nice weather! But I guess it could be worse, we are not getting the flooding like in Texas. We miss driving from the flybridge, but suppose to have a couple of nice days ahead, so will see.

We got another view of Sharp's Lighthouse, the leaning one.

We arrived at St. Michaels Marina at 12:55. It's is a very nice Marina and great location. Restaurants all around and very easy walk to town and the Maritime Museum. What a cute little town! Very quaint. We had a really good lunch at the Town Doc and got re-accaquainted with Paul and Denise on Zephyr.  Denise and I had local shrimp steamed in Old Bay and they were yummy. So funny in Maryland, they put Old Bay on their Old Bay.  (I even got an Old Bay T-Shirt). Another Looper couple we had not met, was docked next to us; Trawler Life from St. Augustine. Mike and I found a grocery and fixed an Indian dish and watched Lightning Hockey.

Tons of cute Bed and Breakfasts in old homes.

Thursday, we went to Carpenter's Saloon for breakfast. Mike had a supposed 3 egg omelet, which decided were Ostrich eggs, because it was so huge. He said it was great and loved the corned beef hash.

St. Michaels was named for the Archangel St. Michael founded about 1677. Another Waterman town. You really have no idea how much of America's history had it's beginnings around the water until you visit some of these places. We went to the Maritime Museum and Lighthouse. This was really one of the better Maritime Museums we've been to. Very well thought out; you walked to several buildings describing the history along the Chesapeake. Boat building, crab and oyster harvesting, water foul exhibit. Very interactive for adults and kids. 

Burning out a log to make a canoe the way the early settlers did.

Miss Bathing Beauty of 1890

Blue Crab in captivity, she is explaining males from females and how they eat.

Crab Tongs

Huge size difference!

Tons of cool duck and geese decoys.

We had dinner outside with Paul and Denise at the Crab and Steak which was right at our Marina. Mike and Denise had soft shell crab and a crab cake. They said they were good, but not great. Mike is still waiting to get to Baltimore where he can have the crabs you shake in a bag with Old Bay. 

What a surprise! We did not expect to see Zephyr again until Lake Michigan.

When was the last time you saw one of these?  Haha, it was empty tho.