The Chesapeake River has thousands of beautiful anchorages, but we were fortunate to find three great ones: Solomon Island, Mill Creek, and Little Bay. This video documents each of the anchorages and our journey down to Deltaville and our haul out.
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Sadly it's a short time here in Annapolis but we will be back. I'm gonna pull the mooring lines.
Here we are in the beloved Solomon Island. Everyone loves this place. It's very cute, very quaint.
Wow that was beautiful up there. We are in beautiful Solomon Island and we are headed
off on our bikes today to do a little exploration. We've heard great things about this place. It is
hotter than heck right now and just literally sitting you're sweating bullets. So welcome to
summer in Maryland and Virginia I guess. We definitely missed the north and the temperatures
of the north for sure. I want cold boggy. I'm so hot. It's a big moment. Brown just got senior rate
A highlight of our time on Solomon Island was our visit to the Calvert Marine Museum.
The museum exhibits are diverse ranging from outdoor and indoor aquatic exhibits
to the history of boating and restored drum point light. Aside from the marine creatures
the light was definitely one of the most interesting exhibits. This is so cool. The light is one of four
surviving Chesapeake Bay screw pile lighthouses originally located off drum point at the mouth of
the Patuxent River. These are the keepers quarters. Keepers, members of the U.S. Lighthouse Service
logged the weather, filled the oil lamps, trimmed the wicks, and polished the lens daily. In foggy
weather they had to continually wind and rewind the 600 pound weights that drove the hammer that
struck the bell that warned sailors off the shoals. For their services they received $575
annual salary, a uniform, an issue of such staples as pork, beef, flour, coffee, and brown sugar,
and of course housing for the whole family. The light was needed in the first place because of
the considerable shoaling around the point. In 1970 the shoaling gradually shifted the shoreline
to the point where the light, which originally stood in 10 feet of water, was entirely on land.
At the turn of the 20th century a small bridge was constructed from the light to the shore
allowing the keeper's family to live with him in the light. In 1944 the light was converted to
electricity and automated in 1960 eliminating the need for a keeper. The Calvert County Historical Society
gained possession in 1974 and with help cut the light from the ground and sent it by barge to
its current location. Well it's been a beautiful stay in Solomon Island but we have got to go
head south to Deltaville. So here we are once again at the anchor getting ready to pick it up.
We got the hose ready because it's going to be muddy. Brown's at the helm and here we go.
Good job babe. Is that an f-16? Buzzing over your head. Not that small. Yeah it's good. Wow babe.
Another fish. No it's not a Spanish. I wonder what it is. Great. Wow. We have our own beach.
We are in Mills Creek and it is beautiful. It is peaceful.
Maybe too peaceful. We don't have any wind but it is a gorgeous anchorage and we are on our own.
We have had two beautiful nights here in Mills Creek but it is time to move on. We've had this
anchorage completely to ourselves and it's been beautiful and we're off to Mills Creek today.
No Little Bay today. Yeah. So off we go. Today is our final move to get to the area of Deltaville
and once we get there then tomorrow morning we'll pick up and do an hour or so into Deltaville to
get hauled out at 1 p.m. and then we're landlubbers. Yep and we're gonna enjoy that.
I can't wait to get a little bit of internet. Yeah that's right.
We have just arrived in Little Bay and found a cute little white beach
thanks to Tony's GPS and we're gonna drop anchor here pretty soon.
Wow babe. It's our final night on the boat for a month. Yep this is hard to beat this type of
thing. Yep take full advantage of this at the moment. When we pull back away from Stingray
we're gonna have a lot of stuff fixed and be ready for the long haul with a lot of things
and know a whole lot more about our boat. Next season.
For now we're not gonna think about that. No we're not. We're just gonna enjoy the sunset.
