Following my post last night, I looked out the window and found this to be an interesting view from our anchorage.
It rained off and on all of yesterday afternoon and continued through the night. We took advantage of the opportunity to close up the boat and run the generator for a while. This allowed us to turn on the air conditioner and dehumidify the cabin, run our coldplate freezer to take a few degrees off the thermometer, and to top off the charge on our batteries. The front moved through overnight and the wind shifted. Our anchor held tight as we repositioned in the light breeze. The temperatures plummeted, dropping about 20 degrees from the morning before. I pulled out my jeans, long sleeved shirt and jacket while Barry bailed the rainwater out of the dinghy in preparation for our run ashore.
Yesterday afternoon I paid some bills and did some other paperwork. While most of our regular bills are satisfied electronically, some still require a stamp and trip to the post office. We Googled and found that the Chesapeake City post office (ZIP Code 21915) was a little over a mile away. We made that our destination for the day, glad to further stretch the boundaries of what we had previously explored. We walked along a major road that continued in the opposite direction of our travels over the bridge you see in the above photo. The shoulders were wide, the traffic was light, and we felt safe. Honeysuckle lined this stretch of highway and overpowered any odor of vehicle exhaust.
We spent a good part of the afternoon visiting with our "next-door" neighbors, Chris and Durene from Wilmington, NC, aboard Sugarfoot, a Monk 36 trawler. We will leave with them in the morning around 8:00 and make our way together through the C&D Canal and down Delaware Bay to Cape May, NJ. After a few days at anchor, we are anxious to get underway. While in Cape May we are looking forward to visiting with friends, grabbing a few provisions/parts, and enjoying a dinner at the Lobster House.
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