Moving On

     We said a sad goodbye to Annapolis (which was probably our favorite stop so far) and headed across the Chesapeake to the Eastern shore where we docked at a small marina in the middle of nowhere (the attraction here was cheap diesel prices).  We were across the Bay from the Patapsco River, which leads directly into downtown Baltimore, and since there was nothing else near us, we sat on the deck and looked at the Baltimore skyline:

You'll have to use your imagination here, but Baltimore is on the horizon line.

     Next morning, we were up early and on the water again heading for Delaware City.  We traveled to the top of the Chesapeake, then through the Delaware Canal into the Delaware River which is is at the top of Delaware Bay.  Whew, that's a lot of Delawares, but maybe because the state is so small, they need to name everything Delaware so everyone will know they are there.  This was also a rather unremarkable stop.  The marina was on a small canal next to the "seen better days" downtown of Delaware City.

Even the posts holding up the dock weren't straight!

     It wasn't hard to move on the next morning, but it was a bit foggy and the Delaware Bay is known for heavy commercial traffic so we had to keep on our toes.  Once again, the scenery was pretty unremarkable the first half of the journey, as you can see in these photos:

 A lovely nuclear power plant on the shoreline.

One of those vessels we were supposed to watch out for.

     And then things got better when we approached this lighthouse.

     It wasn't long after this that we arrived at the small canal that leads into Cape May, N.J., our next stop.  Unfortunately, there was a lot of  boat traffic at the entrance, including these rather large ferries:

     After we got by these guys, we dodged around a few more boats and barges (white knuckle time):

     And, at last, we cruised into Cape May, the subject of my next post.