It was a very peaceful and calm night at anchor with nice temperatures and breeze to keep the cabin comfortable and offer up a great nights sleep. As usual Erik was up before dawn and at about 5:30am noticed that one of the sailboats across the bay was pulling off of the city dock where we had hoped to secure a spot for tonight. The dinghy was still tied off and floating behind the boat so he quickly got down on the swim deck to get the motor off and get it up onto its davits which stirred Renee and Riva from their slumber. Now up on deck Erik pulled anchor and we moseyed through the bay zig zagging through the other anchored boats and over to the dock where we tied up for the day/night.
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| Sun rising after moving over to the free dock from our anchorage |
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| Gorgeous Grand Banks…love the color! |
After coffee and a light breakfast we got the bikes down and loaded Riva into her basket for a ride around the bay to the C&D Canal Museum which was a very nicely done, free attraction. All of the towns along the waterways of America have their own stories and Chesapeake Cities is long and interesting.
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| Steam engines, wheel, and lots of scale models. Very old original pump house. |
After a PBJ and some chips for an early lunch we again departed on the bikes, this time leaving Riva aboard to stay cool and happy. There was a noon AA meeting 3.5 miles away that google maps indicated was moderately hilly. Our thighs judged slightly differently by the time the 7 miles away that round trip was completed! About 1/2 mile into the ride we had to cross the Chesapeake City Bridge which was part of a busy main road and spanned about 1/2 mile. We chose to walk the bikes over the bridge because the walkway was only about 2.5’ wide. The remaining ~3 miles of the ride were quite hilly; some up and some down. It was a good meeting at a treatment center, Haven House, that in reading about its history was founded in 1970 (the year both of us were born) ☺️.
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| Loved the Traditions reading at the meeting Note the way they added phonetics to Autonomous (ah-than’-uh-muss) And Anonymity (Anna-nim’-itty) 😂 |
On the ride back to ‘our side of the canal’ we rewarded ourselves with iced coffee treats from the local small coffee shop, Cafe On The Bay and as we sipped our treats we walked into a couple of the towns shops including Chesapeake Candy Works which resides in a very cool looking historic bank building that still has the vault inside. We walked out of there with some dark chocolate covered espresso beans, a small bag of butter toffee pecans, and a shot of Turkish coffee which we dumped into our remaining ice of our drinks to give it an extra kick of flavor. After a rest on the boat in the cool AC we took off for one final ride for the day to the Dollar General (yep….every small town has one) which was about a mile and a half out of the small historic downtown where we got a few needed provisions.
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| Chocolate please |
The evening was spent aboard making up some yummy chicken tacos, chatting with townspeople, and accomplishing a few small boat chores, most importantly a good cleaning of all the fly bridge eisenglass so we can clearly see the sites while cruising when it’s down. The town dock area, adjacent marina and restaurant, and park areas were fairly busy with many people mulling around. Live music was playing at the Tiki Bar directly behind us offering up a nice selection of music for a relaxing end to our day.
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| Hot air balloon flying over the small bay |
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