ONANCOCK, VA to SOLOMON'S ISLAND, MD / Friday, May 13 to Sunday, May 15 (Days 113 - 115)

Admiral's Log:   7:17 am, Fri. 5/13/16
                         Temp:   62
                         Winds:   7 mph
                         Speed:   7.0

We pulled and rinsed off the anchor at 7am. Another overcast day! Grrr, so tired of this weather! But making the best of it. Guess you could say "a crappy day on the Loop is better than a good day at work." But it is getting old. The waves were hitting us on the beam so it was rockier than normal, but non un-safe. 

This was the anchorage as we left, cloudy but no fog.

At 9:30 the fog rolled in. Good thing we have radar. We could not see a quarter mile around us and crab pots were everywhere!

Fog from the bow

Fog on the stern

We are the blue dot crossing the state line from Virginia to Maryland

We docked at Zahnheiser's Marina at 1:35. We had cocktails with Sweet T, who happened to be there, which was fun catching up with them. Then our nephew David, drove over from DC and had dinner with us at the Dry Dock restaurant connected to the marina. He is staying a couple of days with us on the boat.

Saturday, luckily David has his car, a bit small but it worked. We had to find a couple of Lighthouses for my quest. We went to a cute lighthouse not in use anymore called Piney Point Lighthouse. We also toured a small Waterman Museum with reproductions of boats used in the oyster trade. As you can see, Maryland and Virginia are very proud of their waterman heritage. Every small town has a Waterman or Maritime Museum. It is kind of neat to learn the history of this area.

There is also an original River Dory Boat on display, one of only a handful being restored to preserve this dying oyster industry. 

This little museum was full of all kinds of cool information. Right behind the lighthouse is a sunken WWII German Submarine, the "Black Panther; so named because it was covered with a black synthetic rubber skin, making it invisible to sonar. All the technology has been taken off but the skeleton still remains at the bottom of the Bay.

We had lunch at Angler's; Mike had a rock fish sandwich. Rock Fish are a kind of stripped bass, but get huge; they have to be thrown back at 48 inches. We then went to the Calvert Marine Museum, where the Drum Point Lighthouse had been moved to. It is one of just 3 screwpile lighthouses of then original 45 on the Bay.

                                       

We took advantage of David's car and hit the grocery. For dinner I roasted beets and new potatoes and sautéed scallops and Mike cooked stone crab we had frozen from home. Not bad for boat food don't you think?

Sunday, we had brunch at the Angler again then drove to Ann Marie Sculpture Gardens. Not exactly what we expected. I thought it was going to be some kind of topiary garden. It was a nice garden, but the sculptures were actual sculptures. It's a cute place for kids, with a lot of interaction type things to do. There were many small fairy houses sponsored by different families.

One of the many Fairy Gardens

Our Sculpture

Waterman Statue using "tongs" to scoop oysters

David left at 2, and we discovered three more Loopers had arrived. So we arranged to meet for Happy Hour with Phase II, India Jayne and Chica. We ate pot roast we had put on earlier in the day and watched hockey, again.