The Peripatetic Summer of 2004

In the colonial times in the USA, the privies (or what we called outhouses) euphemistically called "Necessaries".

We visited Ft. Necessity on our honeymoon

Bob standing by the Fort sign

Fort

Memorial Day - May 31, 2004

We loaded our stuff in the car and checked out after breakfast at 0837. The breakfast had three kinds of juice (cranberry, apple and orange) three kinds of cereal (fruit loops, cheerios and a flake) with two kinds of milk, coffee and decafe, plus hot water for tea (with various types available), or hot cereal, hard boiled eggs, a toaster in which to do waffles or french toast with syrup, pancakes to be done in the microwave, fresh fruit (apples and oranges), bagels and cream cheese, muffins, donuts, biscuits and creamed chipped beef.

Breakfast at the Hampton Inn

We drove out Route 40

The Summit Inn sign

toward Farmington through Chalk Hill

Chalk Hill

Stone House Restaurant

and past General Braddock's Grave (which we really didn't see because of the rain although that was an interesting story). Major General Edward Braddock (January 1695 – 13 July 1755) was a British officer and commander-in-chief for the 13 colonies during the actions at the start of the French and Indian War (1754–1763) which is also known in Europe and Canada as the Seven Years' War (1756–1763). This is the War which had it's inception in the Battle of Great Meadows at Fort Necessity. He is generally best remembered for his command of a disastrous expedition against the French-occupied Ohio River Valley then in western Virginia or Pennsylvania in 1755, in which he lost his life.

Braddock, rallying his men time after time, fell at last, mortally wounded by a shot through the chest. Braddock was borne off the field and died on 13 July. Before he died Braddock left Washington his ceremonial sash that he wore with his battle uniform and muttered some of his last words, which were 'Who would have thought?' Reportedly, Washington never went anywhere without this sash for the rest of his life. Braddock was buried just west of Great Meadows in the middle of the road and wagons were rolled over top of the grave site to prevent his body from being discovered and desecrated by the Indians. George Washington presided at the burial service, as the chaplain had been severely wounded. After the French and Indian War ended, the Braddock Road remained a main road in this area. In 1804, some workmen discovered human remains in the road near where Braddock was supposed to have been buried. Officer's uniform buttons reportedly found at the site indicated that the remains were those of General Braddock. The remains that were recovered were then re-interred on a small knoll adjacent to the road. In 1913 the marker was placed where it is today.

General Braddock's Grave concealed by the rain

Even though it was threatening rain, we visited Fort Necessity National Battlefield (The battle fought near here in 1754 launched the French and Indian War). Mt. Washington Tavern is also on the site.

We got to Ft. Necessity just before 0900. In 1959, when we returned from Oberlin on our honeymoon (after I graduated), we visited Fort Necessity. We weren't sure if the Visitor's Center (which was not here in 1959) would be open on Memorial Day,

Fort Necessity from the Visitor's Center

so I walked over

Visitor's Center with flag at half staff

and took this picture from in front of it. Just about that time, the ranger arrived.

Reflection in Visitor's Center

We went in and saw the film which may have had much of the information about the history of the battle. At this time, the English and the colonials (Washington and the Virginia troops) were on one side, and the French from Canada were on the other side. There were apparently Indians fighting on both sides.

Virginia colonial Lieutenant Colonel George Washington was sent by Governor Robert Dinwiddie as an emissary in December 1753, to deliver a letter asking the French to leave the Pittsburgh area. Washington returned to Williamsburg and informed Governor Dinwiddie that the French refused. Dinwiddie ordered Washington to begin raising a militia regiment to hold the Forks of the Ohio, in present-day Pittsburgh. He also sent Captain Trent to build a fort there. Dinwiddie issued these instructions on his own authority, without even asking for funding from the Virginia House of Burgesses until after the fact. The Canadians tore down the British works, and began construction of the fort they called Fort Duquesne.

In March 1754, Governor Dinwiddie sent Washington back to the frontier with orders to "act on ..any Attempts are made to obstruct the Works or interrupt... You are to restrain all such Offenders, & in Case of resistance to make Prisoners of or kill & destroy them". Dinwiddie's instructions, which were issued without the knowledge or direction of the British government in London, have been interpreted as "an invitation to start a war". Washington was ordered to gather as many supplies and paid volunteers as he could. By the time he left for the frontier on April 2, he had gathered 186 men. On May 23, the French commander sent Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville with 35 men to see if Washington had entered French territory, and with a summons to order Washington's troops to leave; this summons was similar in nature to the one Washington had delivered to them four months previous. Captain Trent arrived with news of the advance of the French force under Jumonville. Trent was accompanied by Tanacharison, who promised warriors to assist the British. To keep Tanacharison's support, Washington decided not to turn back, choosing instead to build a fortification now known as Fort Necessity at Great Meadows 37 miles (60 km) south of the forks and await further instructions. In the Battle of Jumonville Glen. Washington ambushed the French, killing 10 to 12, wounding 2 and capturing 21. Among the dead was Jumonville. After that, Washington expected the French to retaliate.

Path from Visitor's Center to Fort

Visitor's center from the fort

Fort Necessity

Bob walking out to the fort in the rain

Looking down from the bridge

Looking toward the fort from the woods

Washington's soldiers build the fort

After encountering and dispatching the French party led by Jumonville, Washington returned to the Great Meadows and fortified his position by building a stockade and earthworks around his storehouse. When he built the fort there were only 160 men with Washington. A few days later, 100 British regulars under the command of James Mackay arrived, but, instead of making camp with the Virginians, they camped separately outside the fort.

British Defense

Washington had heard that there were 500 poorly supplied French troops at Fort Duquesne. So he had his troops building roads for better access to the site. On June 28, after a council of war, Washington ordered the withdrawal to Great Meadows. That same day 600 French, and 100 Indians left Fort Duquesne led by the slain Jumonville's older brother, Louis Coulon de Villiers. In order to keep ahead of the French/Canadian force, the Virginians had to abandon most of their supplies. On July 1, they reached Fort Necessity. At Fort Necessity, the provision hut was depleted, and there was little shelter from the heavy rain that started to fall on the 2nd. With the rain, the trenches that Washington had ordered to be dug had turned into streams. Washington realized that he would have to defend against a frontal assault and also realized that it would be difficult because the woods were less than 100 yards away (within musket range), making it possible for a besieging attacker to pick off the defenders. To improve the defense, Washington ordered his men to cut trees down and to make them into makeshift breastworks

French and Indian attack

By 11:00 am on the 3rd of July 1754, Louis Coulon de Villiers came within sight of Fort Necessity. At this time, the Virginians were digging a trench in the mud. The pickets fired their muskets and fell back to the fort, whereupon three columns of Canadian soldiers and Indians advanced downhill towards the fort. However, Coulon had miscalculated the location of the fort and had advanced with the fort at his right. As Coulon halted and then redeployed his troops, Washington began to prepare for an attack.
Coulon moved his troops into the woods, within easy musket range of the fort. Washington knew he had to dislodge the Canadians and Indians from that position, so he ordered an assault with his entire force across the open field. Seeing the assault coming, Coulon ordered his soldiers, led by Indians, to charge directly at Washington's line. Washington ordered the men to hold their ground and fire a volley. Mackay's regulars obeyed Washington's command, and supported by two swivel cannons, they inflicted several casualties on the oncoming Indians. The Virginians, however, fled back to the fort, leaving Washington and the British regulars greatly outnumbered. Washington ordered a retreat back to the fort.
Coulon reformed his troops in the woods. The Canadians spread out around the clearing and kept up heavy fire on Fort Necessity. Washington ordered his troops to return fire, but they aimed too high, inflicting few casualties, and the swivel cannon fared no better.To add to the garrison's troubles, heavy rain began to fall that afternoon, and Washington's troops were unable to continue the firefight because their gunpowder was wet.

Truce negotiations

The battle of Fort Necessity ended when Colonel George Washington of the Virginia Militia and Captain John Mackay of the British Regulars surrendered to the French forces. The terms of the surrender, or Capitulation, were written in French. The document refers to the assassination of the French officer, Jumonville, in the second paragraph and in article seven. Washington denied the killing was an assassination, claiming his translator rendered the word as "loss" or "death of". On the 17th, Washington delivered his report of the battles to Governor Dinwiddie, expecting a rebuke, but Washington instead received a vote of thanks from the House of Burgesses and Dinwiddie blamed the defeat not on Washington but on poor supply and the refusal of aid by the other colonies

Ft. Necessity stockade

Crossing the earthworks

Swivel gun

Swivel gun from next to stockade

Stockade, trench and one swivel gun

We went inside the stockade.

Looking through gate to storehouse

Looking in gate - Bob beside storehouse

Peeking out to swivel gun from stockade

Small storehouse inside the stockade

Stockade gate from inside

Split rail fence from the trail

Fort Necessity from beside the Visitor's Center

We walked back and then I took the path partway up towards the Tavern.

Sign at bottom of walk

Trail up to Mt. Washington Tavern

Tavern from the Visitor's Center trail

The Tavern is part of the Ft. Necessity 'complex' (which includes Braddock's Grave and Jumonville Glen in addition to Ft. Necessity) and was being opened by the park ranger at 10:00 for a program. Mount Washington Tavern was one of many taverns located along the National Road, which was the first highway built by the Federal government. It was a brick and stone building - built about 1828,which was during the heyday of the National Road. James and Rebecca Sampey and their family owned and operated the Mount Washington Tavern which catered to the stagecoach clientele and was serviced by the Good Intent Stagecoach Line. This tavern owes its name to George Washington, who returned 15 years after the Ft. Necessity battle to purchase the land which he owned until his death in 1799.

Prosperity along the National Road came to an end with the coming of the railroad. In 1855 the executors of the James Sampey estate sold the Mount Washington properties to Godfrey Fazenbaker who lived in the Tavern for over 75 years. The Tavern now has a Barroom, Parlour, Dining Room, Kitchen and some bedrooms open to the public. The original kitchen would have been in the basement, and there would have been more sleeping area in the attics which are now principally used for storage. It is furnished to show how it may have appeared during the1828-1855 timeframe. The Mount Washington Tavern is open for tours only

We left a little before 10

Leaving Ft Necessity

Exit US 40 east

and continued down Route 40 and joined up with I-68 after we crossed into Maryland.

Camping in the rain

Cumberland

It continued to rain. At Hancock, in order to avoid going through Baltimore or Washington, we exited I-68 and crossed into West Virginia on US 522.

Fog

We stopped at 1143 in the rain in Berkley Springs for lunch at McDonalds. Then we went on through Winchester Virginia. In order to avoid Washington D.C., we went down to Fredericksburg

Virginia Route 3 south of Fredericksburg

and crossed over the Potomac on the Governor Nice Bridge

Potomac River sign

Sign leaving Virginia

Sunny Skies

Governor Nice Bridge

Governor Nice Bridge

Morgantown power plant

and were back in Maryland by about 1745.

Landing in Maryland

Morgantown power plant

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This was a fairly inexpensive long weekend trip. Five days and four nights.
Lodging for 4 nights - $276.00 This included breakfast for three mornings.
Fuel (diesel) was about $42.00
Food from lunch Thursday to lunch Monday $190.00 although I do not know what we did for breakfast on Sunday - maybe we skipped it.
Extras - Registration, tolls, museum admission $68.60
Total $577.00

The summer of 2004 was filled with a series of day trips and visits on land (my son from SC visited twice, my mother had her 95th birthday, I had some dental surgery and we went to my husband's aunt's funeral), but we also made time for two short Gunkholing trips on our boat.

Gunkholing

is a boating term referring to a type of cruising in shallow or shoal water, meandering from place to place, spending the nights in coves. The Chesapeake is perfect for this. We have the textbook on this type of cruising Cruising the Chesapeake: A Gunkholer's Guide,by William H. Shellenberger. Technically Gunkholing refers to anchoring in quiet coves, but since my husband's Heart Attack at Shroud Key two years ago when he was pulling the anchor, I have preferred to go to marinas and eat in restaurants. Those part of the first trip and all of the second trip are in the second section.

So this section will be a series of photos interspersed with some text to tell the story of our trips and visits in the summer of 2004
We got back from my 45th college reunion on May 31. From here the first section of the schedule (up to August 1st where I had to split the narrative because it was too long) was:
June 8 - trip to the dental surgeon in Baltimore
June 16 - return trip to the dentist
July 1 - Sons visit and a day trip on the boat
July 7 - Son's return and a local visit
July 13 - Dental visit
July 30 - Mother's 95th birthday
August 6 - start of the first Gunkholing trip

June 2004

University of Maryland

I was making periodic trips up to the University of Maryland Dental School because the students doing the periodontal work there didn't charge as much and there were really no dentists down in the country close where I lived that could to the work.

Hayden-Harris Hall

The building that I went to was Hayden-Harris Hall, which was built in the 70s.
At the time, they were in the process of building a new Dental School building

Construction near the Un of MD Dental School

As I walked to my dental appointment, I saw this sign. It was beside the current University of Maryland Dental School.

It says:

FIRST DENTAL COLLEGE

"Baltimore College of dental surgery, first dental college in the world chartered by the General Assembly of Maryland March 6, 1840. Founders were Horace H. Hayden, M.D. D.D.S. and Chapin A. Harris, M.D. D.D.S. The Assembly stipulated by Act of Consolidation April 9, 1924, that the name of the college "shall be preserved as a definite department of the University of Maryland". ..
After the dental appointments this gave me a chance to go visit my mother

who turned 95 at the end of July. Normally we would go to lunch at her favorite restaurant which was The Crack Pot

It is really spelled that way

Crack Pot restaurant

where she would quite often have cream of crab soup.

menu

Then we would have dinner on the way home. A different place each time. The round trip was about 200 miles.

On the Boarder (a Mexican chain)

Maynards

Bob's comment was that it was trying to be like "Cheers". I do not remember what we had to eat.

After a trip to the dentist, we stopped off here on the way to visit my mom.

Gunnings Crab House

According to their website, Gunnings in this location started in 1969, when Andrew E. Gunning, opened a hole-in-the-wall stag bar in South Baltimore. Offering only beer and shots of whiskey it became a favorite place for the blue collar workers of the Brooklyn neighborhood. It still had this atmosphere. In 1970, Gunning’s son, Edward, a Baltimore policeman, decide it might be nice to offer the regulars something to munch on while they drank. He brought in five bushels of Baltimore traditional steamed Chesapeake Bay Blue crabs, and laid them out for nine dollars a dozen. Gunning’s Bar became “a Baltimore ‘Hon’ Crab House.” Gunnings sold their city location and migrated south to Hanover.

Inside Gunnings

This is a local place with tables inside and outside and a sign outside warning of the attack crab.

Beware of Attack Crab

I had soup, and we both had sandwiches. We shared and ENORMOUS eclair (Bob loves eclairs). The bill for lunch was $25.26 including tax, but before the tip was added. Unfortunately now even the location in Hanover is now closed.

I was also having a very frustrating discussion with the camera people. My original digital camera was a Toshiba, which I bought in 2000. But in the fall of 2002, the On-Off switch twisted off in my hand, and I replaced the PDRM5 with another Toshiba - the PDRM81. Which I HATED. It ate batteries. And it had a hair in it someplace that appeared on all my photos that had a light sky or light area at the top.

Since most of my photos were taken from the boat, most of them had a large area of sky at the top and they all had this hair in them that I had to edit out. I could not see where it was on the camera. I tried every way I could think of to clean it off to no avail. So I sent the camera back to them, and they said it was fixed and sent it back. But the hair was still there. After two or three times back and forth, I finally had to get them on the phone and talk to them while I emailed them a photo with the hair in it so they could see what I was talking about. At that point they did find the hair which was inside the camera and fix it. But the camera still ate batteries. So I gave it to my husband to use and bought a Kodak DX6490. Which was much better on batteries, but I hated the software that came with it.

July 2004

My sister and I usually took my mom somewhere for dinner to celebrate her birthday which was on the 30th of the month.
-In 1998, my sister and I took her to Annapolis and stayed a weekend in a hotel overlooking the harbor.
-For her 90th birthday (1999), my three girls and their children took her to Chuckie Cheese. Then the next day, my sister and I had a surprise birthday party with 40 people which was in Towson. It took us over a year to arrange this party so that everyone would be in town and it would be a surprise.
-For her birthday in 2000 (age 91), my sister and I went down to the harbor and took the water taxi around and then had dinner down there.
-In 2001, we went to a restaurant in Roland Park.
-In 2002, we ate at the Renaissance Harborplace overlooking Baltimore Harbor with the son of my mother's first cousin who was visiting from Japan.
-In 2003 we had a celebration out on her deck (in Towson)

For her 95th birthday (2004), we again tried to arrange a big party, but it was too difficult to coordinate, so the various family members visited her during the summer. Starting at the beginning of July

(She died three months before her 2006 birthday when she would have been 97)

2004, July 1

My son and his family came up from South Carolina and since my daughter-in-law and granddaughter had not been out on the boat, we took a trip across the Potomac for lunch at Coles Point Plantation.

Leaving our marina

in the aft cabin

Ragged Point light

Coles Point is between Stratford Hall and Port Kinsale at Ragged Point light in the northern neck of Virginia. Hague is the nearest town.

Breakwater outside the marina

Coming into the marina channel

Covered slips, and fuel dock in the marina

This restaurant said we could tie up for lunch free at their dock (which was the gas dock). The other restaurant within a half day's sailing range (Port Kinsale) was not open for lunch. .

RosalieAnn at the restaurant dock

Getting off the boat in the marina

While the website says the name of the restaurant is Blackbeards, the name on the menu was Pilot's Wharf.They were having a large party (ladies in red dresses and purple hats) so we ate in the back room not overlooking the dock.

Granddaughter and Bob looking at the menu

My son and I had the Sunrise prime rib (or sirloin) sandwich for $6.99. We had a choice of fries, cole slaw, or potato salad as a side. I had the potato salad and my son had the fries. Each sandwich came with a big dill pickle. The meat was a trifle fatty, but it was a big sandwich and quite enough to eat.My DIL and Bob (my husband at the end of the table) had the Dockmaster crab cake sandwich for $7.99, and the grandkids shared a cheese burger and fries for $5.99.

sailing back across the Potomac

Maryland shore

We had lunch at the restaurant and then we motored back across to Maryland to our home marina

Camping trailers at Courtney's

Schieble's head boat Miss Ocean City as we approach our home marina

Then we all had a swim at the pool in the marina.

Then my son and his family went up to Baltimore to visit my mother for a week.

son's family leaving

July 7, 2004

My son came back to Leonardtown on their way home and we had a whole day of local sightseeing,
In the morning we went to the Patuxent Air Museum

PAX NAVAL AIR (in the picnic table

Ceder Point Lighthouse model

The Cedar Point Light originally located on a tiny island off Cedar Point at the southern entrance to Patuxent River was built in 1896. It sat on 1.54 acres with a three-story brick and cedar-shingle house crowned by a 50-foot tower housing lens and fog bell tower, oil house, boathouse, outhouse and barn. A radar reflector now stands in place of the century-old crumbling lighthouse. Cedar Point Light was made inactive in 1928 and was on the Lighthouse Digest Doomsday List. In 1957 the bell tower collapsed during a storm. The Navy removed the cupola in 1981. The lighthouse was finally demolished in 1996. Portions of the keeper's house were donated to the Calvert Marine Museum.

Ejection Seats

My husband went to Test Pilot School at Pax River. This is one of two air stations in the US armed forces that have TPSs. The museum is about research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) of Naval Aircraft. It is one of only 11 Naval museums in the country that is chartered by the Secretary of the Navy. The old museum closed in 2001 to allow road widening, so when we went in 2004 it was in a temporary location. The temporary museum is a large siding-clad structure with a nearby aircraft viewing area. It is offset from the main road. It is 50% bigger than the old museum.

Son and granddaughter

The museum offers hands-on displays, a wide-screen video presentation, full-scale aircraft and a flight trainer to help educate visitors about the process of testing military flight equipment. There is a model collection, the portable helicopter, the rubber airplane, a display about G-forces, the development of the ejection seat (the kids could pose in it), the story of the helmet, etc.

Surface effect ship model

Sitting in the seat of a jet

Grandson in a cockpit

Wind tunnel models

Model collection behind Bob

Individual airplane

The outdoor collection had 17 naval aircraft, including the F-18 Hornet, the F-14 Tomcat, the Harrier II, the Sea Stallion helicopter, and the S-2 Tracker. He flew various planes but spent most of his time in the S-2. Others on display are the A-4 Skyhawk, and the F-4 Phantom II.

Through the fence

Everyone in the plane shade

Airplane of LtCOL Bob Newsom USMC

Bob in front of a jet

Tow motor

S2F - Plane Bob flew

S2F

Willy Fudd airborne early warning aircraft with the wings folded

Son's family

Granddaughter under the wing

Helicopters

Huey

Waiting for a lunch table

getting gas

In the afternoon we went to the Maritime Museum at Solomons Island (across the Patuxent from us) including climbing the lighthouse

Solomons from the bridge over the Patuxent River

This is a wonderful museum. It includes exhibits on the maritime Patuxent River such as the restored Drum Point Lighthouse, local fossils including Calvert Cliffs, estuarine biology of the area, demonstrations on oyster tonging, marsh walks, small craft handling, a discovery room for children, an aquarium which includes otters, wood carving and model building, and a chance to have a ride on a bugeye or other types of boats.

Bob and son's family walking toward the museum

At the entrance were the fiberglass seahorses which Calvert County has chosen as their symbol. St. Mary's where we live has the blue heron.

Seahorse painted by Calvert County children

This one is painted with various Maryland and Solomons Island icons (What shows on this side is sharks teeth, lighthouse, jellyfish, Maryland flag, a ray, and a Baltimore Oriole - the bird). The US flag is on the other side. This sculpture is titled "Horsin' Around in Maryland" and it was designed by the students at Dowell Elementary.

Granddaughter by "Beach" seahorse

The island was formerly known as Bourne's Island (about 1680), Somervell's Island (1740-1814) and Sandy Island (1827-1865). It became known as Solomons Island (1867) because Isaac Solomon moved from Baltimore to the island, later named for him, to be closer to the big oyster reefs in the Chesapeake. He had developed a process for canning oysters. He shipped them as well. Solomon's Island is on the north side of the Patuxent. It has nothing to do with either Salmon or the Solomons Islands in the Pacific. At one time at least 550 feet separated the island from the mainland. The first causeway connecting the island to the mainland was built in 1870. Today the causeway is only 23 feet long.

The Calvert Cliffs area is rich in fossil sharks teeth so some exhibits highlight this

Recreation of Calvert Cliffs fossil fields

The Paleo hall at the Calvert Marine Museum features fossils from the Miocene age -- ten to twenty million years ago -- when sea levels were higher and the ocean covered this region. A replica of a section of the famous Calvert Cliffs is used to explain local geology. This section shows the layers with fossils in them.

Looking for sharks teeth in the children's section

Son's children in front of prehistoric shark jaw

Drawer of things to try magnifying

There is also a section on the history of the marine industry in this area

Sail and Riggers loft exhibit

The sign says: "Rigging is the system of tackle, lines and stays which support and control a vessel's masts and sails. The rigger was the person who fitted the rigging and often shared the loft with the sailmaker - sailmakers also needed a large unobstructed workspace.

Blacksmith shop

Shop diorama

The Colonial Connection

Machinery exhibit

Diorama of the island

And there is an aquarium section

Aquarium

Seahorse tank

Seahorses

Aquarium with fishes labeled

Docent showing kids about horseshoe crab

which extends outside to the otter tank

Otter

Otter swimming on his back

And a boardwalk through the marsh

Marsh walk

Snake in the wetlands

Fiddler Crabs on the mud flats

Fiddler Crabs

In order to get from the boardwalk into the swamp over to the lighthouse, you have to walk along by the small craft building. This 6,000-square foot building, open toward the boat basin, houses nineteen of the small craft in the museum's collections, ranging in size from a dugout canoe to the forty-five-foot drake-tail Penguin. Next to the Small Boat Shed is the Small Craft Guild building. Here a group of boat enthusiasts works on selected weekday and Saturday mornings building, restoring, sailing, and rowing traditional craft indigenous to the region, all under the direction of the museum's boatwright.

Small craft shed

boat shed

Drum Point Light was originally out in the Bay at Drum Point. It is a screwpile, cottage-type light. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were forty-five of these screwpile lighthouses that served the Chesapeake Bay because they were less expensive to build than other types of lighthouses.

Drum Point reflected

Earliest known photo from 1907

Drum Point Lighthouse

Originally the keeper would have come and gone by boat. The keeper would have accessed his home by climbing a ladder on the outside rail. For the purposes of 'civilian' access, you now get into the lighthouse by going up through a hatch in the floor.

My son going up through the hatch

Each room in the lighthouse has been painstakingly re-created under the direction of Anna Weems Walt who was born and resided in the lighthouse. The furniture was based on her memory and she even donated some family china to top off her efforts.

Lighthouse keeper's quarters

Part of kitchen

Kitchen stove

Interior stairs from underneath

While the underpinnings have been modified somewhat to be safer for visitors, I don't think the interior has been modified at all. You can't pass on the stairs.

Bed in lighthouse

Automatic bell ringer (for fog)

Sanitary facilities (on the rail over the water)

Railing outhouse

Bob, grandson and daughter-in-law on the lighthouse platform

There is an anchorage near the lighthouse

Anchorage from lighthouse at museum

and there is a dinghy dock

Solomon's museum dinghy dock

Wm. B. Tennison from the lighthouse

Wm. B. Tennison is a nine-log sailing bugeye hull converted to powered buy-boat, official number 081674. Tennison was built in 1899 by master carpenter Frank Laird of Monie, Maryland, at Crabb Island (now abandoned) near Oriole, Somerset County, Maryland, on a tributary of the Manokin River off Tangier Sound. Tennison was built for Benjamin P. and Rufus L. Miles of Monie, Maryland, who used her as a bugeye oyster dredge boat until 1908-9 when she was converted to power. The date of 1899 was a late one for the construction of a "chunk" or log hull bugeye. By this time logs were becoming scare and the bugeye was beginning to be replaced by the smaller, easier to operate, and cheaper to build skipjack. This late construction date in part explains Tennison's survival. Of the hundreds of sailing bugeyes dredging in the 1880s, less than 50 survived to 1938.

Door of waterman's shed

This shed is on the boardwalk trail outside the museum southeast of the lighthouse. I took this picture because of the texture of the wood and also so I could read the sign. The sign says:
"Waterman's Shed: "This shed was built ca 1900 at Otter Point, Patuxent River. Orne Laveille lived in this shed during the oyster season, from which he oystered on the Patuxent River. The shed was moved by barge around 1910 to Tongue Cove. Heillen Creek by the Tongue family and used by Tongue and Ballard families until 1984 when the shed was donated to the museum who moved it to its present location."

Sign as we left the museum "Thank you for visiting"

July 13, 2004

I had another dental appointment. Bob drove me up and I took some photos from the top of the parking garage

Lexington Market parking garage

Central Market Post Office

church steeples

church where Poe's Grave is located

And then my sister and brother-in-law met Bob and me at my mother's house

my mother's cat

my mother with her cat

my mother's photo of my sister and me with our spouses

with my painting of my dad behind us

July 30, 2004

On her birthday, I drove up to town, and took her to lunch at Gertrudes at the Baltimore Museum of Art. When I was a child, my mom brought me down here for art lessons. I must have been young, but I remember the teacher trying to tell me how to do trees so they weren't big blobs, but that I still didn't have to do each leaf. I'm still not too good with foliage. My first oil painting, the instructor did the tree leaves for me.

Since Charles Street is mostly one way north, I don't get to see this museum much as when I travel through Baltimore. I usually go south on St. Paul Street, and north on Calvert. But if you can get onto the short section of Charles that goes south past Hopkins, you will come to Museum Drive on the right. If you take Museum Drive, it will bring you right out in front of the museum which has twin lions flanking the steps, and I remember Rodin's Thinker in the front.. I understand this statue is now in the forecourt and isn't outside anymore.

Stone Lions and flowers in the entrance

Museum entrance

Mom looking at a glass exhibit

Gertrude's is a very fancy restaurant, and reservations are recommended. We had a reservation for 12:30 and arrived early (about 12:10). (A couple without a reservation was seated before us even though we arrived at the same time which offended me. I don't know if it was because they were a man and woman, and we were two women or what.) They were having a BSO luncheon party and by 12:30 the place was filled and people were having to wait to be seated.

The real big problem is the noise. The restaurant was full, and it was REALLY too noisy to talk. It might have been because the luncheon party was mostly women and they were at a long table so had to talk loudly. Maybe it was quieter outside, but it was too hot and humid for us to sit out there.

Inside Gertrudes

Mom at Gertrudes

cream of crab soup ($4.95)

My mom had the turkey club on toast (called the Hutzler's Tea Room Club) for $7.50, which came with regular potato chips (which she doesn't eat although she snitched some of my fries), and she had cream of crab soup ($4.95) which she said she could taste the sherry in. We each got a big dill pickle (which neither of us ate since we don't like them). She took half of her sandwich home.

Toasted cheese and tomato sandwich at Gertrudes

I had a $7.95 soup and sandwich. The soup was the special which was corn and shrimp. The sandwich was toasted cheese and tomato. It came with very good fries which I tried not to eat too many of. We both got dessert, and were both really too full to do justice to it. Mom had a chocolate Mudd cake ($5.00), and I had a praline thing called Nougatine Glace for $6.00.

Nougatine Glace for $6.00.

I was also tempted by the special which was Peach Cobbler. We both drank water. The total with tax before the tip was $32.97

Gift Shop

After lunch, mom and I browsed a bit in the gift shop.

Mother looking at the flowers at the entrance

Mom going back to the car

She drove back to her house so I took some photos. We passed Hopkins.

Johns Hopkins - Homewood campus

In the 1940s, Charles Street was one way going south. Then in 1953, a "swaggering, self-taught traffic engineer named Henry A. Barnes" came to Baltimore and changed the traffic flow. In his 1965 autobiography, "The Man With the Red and Green Eyes" he reported that on traffic hearings on the plan to reverse Charles Street, "one female citizen . . . came dripping in mink and exuding all the old airs of historic Baltimore. . . . 'You just don't understand, Mr. Barnes,' she said. 'You're a newcomer here. We have traditions in Baltimore. . . . If you reverse the direction of the street, you're making it easy for the people of South Baltimore to use Charles . . . and they will.'" I remember Barnes (I was in HS then). Most of what he did made a lot of sense to me. I had a Pittsburgh college friend who came to live in Baltimore. She could not get over how easy Baltimore was to drive in compared to Pittsburgh (and I have to say also compared to D.C. or Boston). One of the things Barnes did was move a lot of monuments out of the middle of streets.

Hopkins statue

From a Baltimore City Paper article by Tom Chalkley in 2001:
"He considered Baltimore's fondness for monuments a monument to municipal insanity: "Next to crab cakes, [monuments] were the citizens' second greatest passion. It didn't matter if the monument was an eyesore, if it was erected to someone who had long since been forgotten, or if it was a menace to their own lives and property." The "worst of these dillies," he wrote, "was the pedestal honoring Johns Hopkins, which sat in the middle of Charles near Johns Hopkins University. Nicknamed "The Birthday Cake," the Hopkins shaft had caused a number of fatalities prior to Barnes' arrival. Defying his critics, he moved it to its present-day niche at Charles and 33rd Street, where, Barnes wrote, "the sports fan could view it in awe and admiration . . . after the Orioles had lost to the visiting team.""

First English Lutheran Church

She told me that this building was Baltimore's first condo

Arthur E Davis III building

and also some going through town on the way back to Leonardtown

Baltimore architecture

From the car - St. Paul Street

Maryland Science Center

Kids on the Duck

August 2004

After our short trip across the Potomac in July, we've been kept in port by all the hurricanes coming up the coast, and also by my dental appointments. We started off for our first longer boat trip of the summer - a long weekend at the beginning of August. We will begin by going down to Reedville on the Great Wicomico in Virginia

6 August 2004 - Overnight in Reedville

It was about 10 before we got the boat dried off, and got her ready to leave. The wind tried to blow us sideways into the slip, but it worked out OK. We were going to get fuel, but Bob figured we'd never get off the fuel dock afterwards, and we don't really need it as we've got 50 gallons or more in the tanks. Bob did his usual trick of putting the sails up right away as we motored out the channel of Smith Creek. I had a hard time holding the bow into the wind which was 20-30 knots. Finally he turned away from the wind and got the rest of the sail up (just main and staysail) and turned the engine off, and we sailed toward the mouth of the Potomac.

Pound nets in Smith Creek

I'm hoping that the winds will drop off a bit this afternoon as predicted - NOT. It is too windy and too many waves for me to feel comfortable using the digital camera. We hear on the radio that there is a sailboat taking on water off Point Lookout, and we see the Coast Guard boat from St. Inigos going out to him. Eventually we get to the mouth of the Potomac, and see him with the Coast Guard boat and also the state police helicopter overhead. According to what we hear on the radio, a plastic thru hull broke and a 2" stream of water was coming in to the boat. But it was so rough that the Coast Guard took all the passengers off, and took the boat in tow. They are having trouble getting the pump started so everyone is bailing. Found out from the paper later, that a small power boat was taking on water at about this same spot later in the day. We had a very fast trip downwind to Reedville. The peaches that were in the wire hanging basket got so beat up that Bob threw them out later.

Wicomico Spider

As we come down to the Greater Wicomico, we see a menhaden boat coming out of the river. They apparently decided it was too rough for them, and turned around and went back to the dock along with all the rest of their kin.

Omega Protein boats and plant

Local fishermen alongside a docked menhaden boat

Menhaden boat

Sailboat anchored up past the marina

The owner of the marina was not there, and they don't answer the radio, so I called on the phone and some of the restaurant personnel came out and helped us tie up on the face dock. His instructions to them before he left was that any boat less than 35 feet could take any available slip. I like a face dock better, although we are subject to a lot of dock walkers looking at the boat. When we tied up at Reedville Marina, we had gone 29.3 nm at an average speed of 5.7 knots. The GPS said the max speed was 9.8 knots which is more than our 7+knot hull speed.

Bob on the dock by the boat

We had an early dinner at the Crazy Crab

Inside the Crazy Crab

Crazy Crab Waitress with "Basket Case" on the back of her shirt

I had a crabcake (very good with lump crabmeat) with a tossed salad, broccoli and an enormous sweet potato (twice as big as my crabcake), and

Crab Cake Dinner with Sweet potatoes

Bob had shrimp salad which he said wasn't real shrimp with cole slaw and potato salad.

Shrimp salad plate

They also gave us some hush puppies. This was $29.16 before the tip.

Hush puppies

Then we walked up as far as the museum. They were having an Antique and Classic Boat Show this weekend, and boats were on display on trailers and also at the docks behind most of the houses on Main Street.

The museum docks with the Claud Somers skipjack

The vessels at the dock include the skipjack Claud W. Somers which is part of the permanent collection. This 42' vessel was built in 1911 and worked Virginia waters until 1925 when she went to Maryland owners. Skipjacks are two-sail bateaus with sloop hulls, from which oyster dredging was done. They have no motors, and the only dredging done in the Chesapeake since 1860 is done by sailboats. Since the mid 1960's, some amendments have been made to allow for the use of motors behind sail dredging vessels called a push-boat. Currently, there are even areas in the Bay that allow motor dredging on other types of vessels. But for the better part of the Bay, you must be in a DNR registered oyster sailboat to engage in dredging for oysters in the winter months from November through March.

Skipjack at the pier

Elva C

The Elva-C is a 55 foot By-Boat (a traditional work boat) which was built in 1922, and has been donated to the museum and restored by museum volunteers and local boatbuilder George Butler, whose family has owned Butler’s Marine Railway for three generations. The boat is also available for trips on the Bay and Cockrell Creek. At Christmas on Cockrell's Creek children welcome Santa as he arrives aboard the Elva C.

Three log canoe

small boat shed

Some of antique and classic trailer able boats

I got a walking tour map from one of the docents for the museum (she was leaving and it was too late to visit the museum again, but she ran back to get one for me), and I walked back along Main Street taking pictures of the houses that were on the tour or looked interesting.

Fisherman's Museum

Museum offices

The Pendleton Building

I have not been to the Pendelton Building which was added in 2003 after we actually toured the museum. It provides the shop space and modern facilities for two of the RFM's major programs, Boat Building and Model Making. There are education programs and special events held throughout the year, such as Family Boat Building weekends and display of the Northern Neck Railroad.

In the Boat Building Shop, facilities are in place to construct traditional small boats and other craft. Boat building classes are held, and special "Family Boat Building Weekends" are offered throughout the year.

Beautiful house and garden near Fisherman's Museum

Reedville is named for Captain Elijah Reed, a sea captain from Maine who came down to this area in 1874 and saw in menhaden (a kind of small fish) a golden opportunity. Legend has it that, as early as the 1620's, the Indians taught the Pilgrims the value of burying menhaden in each hill of corn for fertilizer. By 1885, there were many menhaden factories on Cockrell Creek producing fish oil, meal and fertilizer from menhaden. Factory owners and fishing boat captains who made their fortunes from menhaden built homes along what is now Main Street. The "Millionaire's Row" mansions are now on the National Register of Historic Places. The Reedville Fisherman's Museum has restored some of the oldest homes, and has information about the menhaden industry and the history of Reedville.

Menhaden fishing has declined until there is only the one Omega Protein plant remaining on Cockrell Creek. But Reedville is also a significant charter fishing center for Chesapeake Bay bluefish and rockfish with more than 50 boats operating out of the area.

Charter dock and sign

The Reedville Historic District begins at Crowder's Lane. I have not walked to the 300 block to take a photo of number one on the tour. I started with the church which is #2 on the walking tour because I knew I had to walk back to the marina later.

Bethany Methodist Church

The second stop on the walking tour is at 454 Main Street. The Bethany Methodist Church was completed in 1901, and is noted for the magnificent wooden interior. The bell tower was added in 1921 under the supervision of Captain Fisher who hauled the bricks from New Jersey in one of his schooners.. It replaced the earlier wooden tower. The Reedville Town Hall, built in 1897 with the contributions of 20 subscribers totaling over $13,000. was built where I am standing in the church parking lot. It served as the towns first and only movie theatre, and they also had theatrical productions, commencements and other events there.

This is the William Walker house (504 Main Street) (Stop #3) the Oldest House in town.

William Walker house

It is the centerpiece of the Reedville Fisherman's Museum. It was built (according to local tradition) in one single day on 17 April, 1875 while Mr. Walker was out oystering. It was built on land which was purchased from Captain Reed (who came to Reedville the previous year) and is the oldest house still standing in Reedville. Out in front next to the house is a bronze propellor from a menhaden ship. The back of the oldest house has been 'attached' to the rest of the museum and a ramp added.

back of the house

It has been restored and furnished with accessories and items that would have been typical of a waterman's home in the late 19th century. The museum docents give a tour of the house which is quite interesting.

Second Oldest House

Number 4 is the second oldest house still standing in Reedville. It was built in 1875 by Gamalian T. Robinson. In 1935, Harold Haynie and his wife Miriam bought the house . Miriam was a noted artist and she founded the Reedville Art League. She was also the author of a number of books about Reedville and the Northern Neck. These include: "The Stronghold," "A Kingdom by the Sea" and "Reedville: 1874-1974." These books (and others) are available in the Reedville Fisherman's Museum Gift Shop

682 Main

Stop #5 was built in 1906 by John R. Muir. It was later enlarged and served as a hotel with a livery stable in the rear.There was a lady from NJ and her son sitting on the porch, and she said it was her house, and that Elijah Reed was her ancestor. The walking tour guide says, however, that the house is still owned by a member of the Muir family.

(Stop #6) Halfway down Reed's Lane (which is now Main Street) the Reed Monument is enclosed by an iron fence.

Reed Monument

The fence is an example of the iron fences that once enclosed the yards of a number of the houses on Reed Lane aka Main Street. Sometimes these iron fences may have been sold as scrap for the war effort in WW II. This plot was the site of the interment of Elijah Reed and his wife, family and close friends. Subsequently, they were moved to Roseland Cemetery.

The monument says:
"Elijah W. Reed
"Born November 27, 1827
"Died January 27, 1888
"Founder of Reedville"

I don't have a photo of Stop #7 and I did not walk down "Tom Cat Alley" or Toulson Avenue to see #8. The walking tour pamphlet did not say why the street was locally called Tom Cat Alley. To make up for it, I have two photos of Stop #9

Morris House

Captain Albert Morris and his wife built this three story Queen Anne styled Victorian house in 1895. It is one of the centerpieces of Reedville architecture. For instance, it is featured by the Reedville Museum in the Christmas lighting season. It is now a bed and breakfast. The elegant lower floor features "a tiled entrance hall and formal living and dining rooms that typify the wealth of the late 19th and early 20th century" industralist/entrepreneur. Captain Morris, along with his brother-in-law James Fisher, owned and operated the Morris-Fisher Menhaden Factory.According to their site: "The Morris House offers spectacular water views, a private dock, spacious suites, Jacuzzi's, fireplaces, antique collections,full breakfasts and more. A separate, two bedroom cottage is available daily or weekly"

Morris BandB

#10 This building at #858 Main Street housed the Coast Guard office

Customs House

(in addition to being the Customs House) and was the only place locally where a fishing license could be purchased.It is currently the acupuncture office of Claire Michie a L.Ac. who is a member of the Acupuncture Society of Virginia. Her sign also advertises Chinese Herbs.

This building at 876 Main Street (Stop #11)

Northern Neck State Bank

was formerly the Peoples Bank of Reedville. It opened in 1910 and was built of the same brick as the Gables across the street. Captain Fisher supervised the construction. During the depression, this was the only rural bank to remain open, due to Captain Fisher who personally loaned the bank $109,000. Next to the bank in what is now the parking lot, used to stand the Dey Building which housed a law office, a milinery shop, a dentist, the Post Office, a bowling alley, a grocery store and a barber shop. It was razed in the 1950s.

#12 Reed's Wharf. Now we are down at the end of the street by the marina

Virginia Seafood Products plant

Reed's Wharf is the original site of the Reed factory, and later the Chesapeake Oil and Guano Company factory. The area was the business hub of the community, and steamships bringing supplies to Reedville landed here. Many of the buildings that were here were destroyed by fire in 1925. Currently at this location is the Virginia Seafood Products plant for processing fish (which also sells bait and tackle and possibly fish), as well as Reedville Marina and the Crazy Crab restaurant

#13 861 Main - Sea Products.

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The Reed and Rice Store which was at 861 Main Street was opened in December 1912, and was the very latest thing in retail esblishments at the time. Inside, there was a drug store with a marble soda fountain.A handsome stairway led to the upper floor where the ladies milinery department was located. Milliners came to the store each fall and spring by steamboat.The store also sold and delivered groceries, building supplies, coal and ice.The building is now the home of Sea Products. which sells prepared fresh or frozen fish and seafood.. Closed November to March.

The Gables #14 was built in 1909

The Gables

with ships ballast bricks brought in from Baltimore in 1902 and stacked on site. They were periodically restacked so they would weather uniformly.Captain James C. Fisher aligned the roof with a compass. He erected the wooden mast of his schooner, the "John B. Adams" through the top two stories. Building the Gables took eight years because what was built one day, Capt. Fisher was likely to have torn down and rebuilt the next. Local historian, Miriam Haynie writes, "Finally, it was finished [in 1914] and stood in all its gabled Queen Anne glory -- with a fountain in front, a coach house on the side and a handsome wrought-iron fence to enclose it all." From the B&B website: "The brick arcadia wraps around three sides of the house with double doors opening into marble floored vestibules at each end of the wide center hall. The grand quarter- sawn oak staircase with hand carved “waves of the sea” and original parquet “sunrise” landings, sweeps up to the third floor. Opposite the stairwell are the antique filled parlors separated by massive oak pocket doors. Across from them is the formal dining room with its exquisite Venetian chandelier."On the second floor, French doors open into the marble floored vestibules leading to the wicker filled sun porches on each end of the center hall..."The third floor was the Captain’s billiard room. It is an octagonal room with the main cabin mast from the ship as the center support. It runs from the 3rd floor through the 4th floor and the massive slate roof is hung from the top of the mast on the compass rose. Small bell shaped rooms finished in double planking tongue and groove wood are located off the billiard room on the cardinal points of the compass.. ... The fourth floor is a virtual museum area, essentially unchanged since the Captain had it built. The mast continues to the top of the roof. The walls are all varnished double planking tongue and groove. All of the construction is mortise and tenon and was done by shipwrights. "

Looking out across the creek

The Gables Coach House

was built in 1880 as a stables for the Gables. Since April 2002, guests can now enjoy four lovely new rooms. The Coach House also houses the dining room, gift shop, an ice cream parlor and an outside bistro. Additional rooms are available at the Gables itself.

811 Main

#15 This Queen Anne style house was built in 1888 by Elijah W. Reed's son George N. Reed.

811 Main

(Stop #16)

Bailey Cockrell House

The north wing of the Bailey Cockrell Queen Anne style home was built prior to 1884 to house Elijah Reed's factory workers. In 1886, Isaac Bailey purchased the house and one acre of land. An addition was then built which more than tripled the size of the house. Isaac Bailey designed and built the "Bailey Skiff" which was a popular open shallow draft fishing boat used in the lower bay region at the turn of the century.

791 Main Street

In 1899, the house was sold to Dr. L.E. Cockrell, who had his office next door at 791 Main Street which is Stop #17

#18 Main Street #729 Chesapeake Oil

Chesapeake Oil

This building is uninhabited and appeared to be abandoned on both of our visits. The building was purchased from the Chesapeake Oil and Guano Company in 1884 by Captain John Hinton as a family home. Later it was called Reedville House and was used as a hotel with a livery stable in the rear.

On this lot (Stop #19)

Tommy's

there was originally the Blundon and Hinton store building - a grocery and department store. Behind the store was the Blundon and Hinton Cannery. Later it was the Reedville Market. In 2001 at our visit, this was Elijah's Restaurant (named after Elijah Reed the town founder). In 2004, the name had been changed to Tommy's Restaurant

Tommy's Restaurant and handicapped parking

View from the porch where I sat down to rest

Stop #20

Reedville Marina Railway

In 1906, Isaac Bailey's workshop was on this site, and Sam Butler bought the workshop and set up the first marine railway. Several tools owned by Mr. Bailey are still being used today in building, restoring and conducting maintenance on many area boats. The railway is now being operated by the third generation. George Butler helped the Reedville Fishermans Museum to restore the byboat Elva C.
"Watermen pay a hauling fee and work on their own boats or they pay to have Butler repair and maintain their boats. The railway holds two boats

Original Texaco building

Kilduff Texaco-This interesting building with large oil tanks behind it is at 691 Main Street. It has a sign on it which says that it is the original Texaco building. It is now Kilduff Oil. They have heating oil and other products including biodiesel.

Stop #21 at 621 Main Street

621 Main Street

This house was built in 1890. The first house here was built in 1876, but was burned down in 1888. (Loss by fire was quite common in wooden homes.) The story goes that after the fire, the family took out the pot of beans that had been cooking in the oven.and had them for dinner. The building appears to have some later non-authentic architectural additions (like the porch and the iron porch railings).

#22 617 Jett Foto

Jett Foto

This building was built in 1912 and was first called Megill's Store. It had an ice cream parlor, a butcher shop and a bakery. When the street was widened, it was moved back to its current location. In 1944 it became the home of the Haynie Insurance Agency. Then it was the Reedville Art Gallery which sold the works of local artists. Now it is apparently a photographer's studio called Jett Foto

#23 607 Main

607 Main

The private residence at 607 Main Street was built in 1890, and over the years has been the Crowther Meat Shop and the Miersch Barbar Shop.The home at 585 Main Street was built in 1884 for Captain Croswell, one of the last schooner captains of the Chesapeake.

Stop #24 is the Garrison House

The Garrison House

which was built in the Queen Anne style in 1885, and was a boarding house for 25 years. Bob is walking on that side of the street. I took the picture because of the mermaid by the door.

Stop #25 The Masonic Hall A.F. & A. M.

Masonic Hall on Reed Street

at 31 Reed Street was built in 1927 in the Colonial Revival style. Behind the Hall was the Pythian Hall which served as the first Town Hall (before the one that was built next to the Bethany Methodist Church in 1897) and the only public school before Reedville High School was built in 1908.

As we walked back to the boat, we passed the

Steamboat Wharf

Reedville Steamboat Wharf which is right down on the end of Main Street next to the Reedville Marina.. They sell chum and ice for fishermen, and you can also come and buy fish fresh off the boat in the afternoon. I saw some cats and kittens on the roof and tried to take their photos

cats and kittens on top of the building

They put a big power boat named Fair Dinkum in front of us on the face dock.

Fair Dinkum on the dock in front of us

Neither of us can stay more than Friday night, as they need the docks and slips for the boat show. After we got back to the boat, we got dessert (I had apple pie with ice cream and Bob had coconut cream pie) and took it back to the boat to eat. The restaurant was too full for us to get a seat, and it was pretty windy and cold to eat outside.

Saturday, August 7, 2004

Saturday, we wait for Fair Dinkum to leave - he needs a fan belt and no one here has any idea when or where one can be purchased. The gas dock is right in front of Fair Dinkum, and someone is there getting gas, so he has a hard time getting out. (And his being there makes it hard for other people to get in to get fuel, although we did see a single hander in a crab pot boat make a very nice job of it.) It is very easy to get off the dock with FAIR DINKUM gone. We push off about 9:20 and Bob puts up the main and jib, and turns off the engine when we get out of the river. We are following

another sailboat

that spent the night anchored up past the marina

an Old Chimney

Crab Pot boat

Crab pots stacked on shore

Homes in Fleeton from Cockrell Creek

On the Fleeton side, at the end of the peninsula is this building which looks like it might be a lighthouse, but smaller

Lighthouse model

After we get out of the Wicomico River, Bob puts up the main and jib, and turns off the engine.

Wicomico spider

We have the VHF radio on (as always) and hear someone inquiring of another boater if he was trying to avoid submarines by zig zagging. We passed the Reedville-Tangier ferry about 10:41

Tangier ferry

The wind decreased and at 1207, Bob started the engine. We are heading for Tangier