He Stilled the Storm with a Gentle Breeze, and Calmed the Billowing Seas…

MAIA in Annopolis MD at Spa Creek

Today we’re weathered in at Cape May NJ. We planned to stay one night here at Utsch’s marina but tonight will be our third. However, we’re enjoying Cape May and the company of others who also are waiting to continue their journeys.

It’s been a fantastic week, seems more like a month! We celebrated the weekend with friends, Mothers’ Day with family and left early Monday, May 14 for Solomons MD. Next day we sailed to Annapolis where we love the moorings in Spa Creek by the US Naval Academy.

Stained Glass in USNA Chapel
(Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord)

On Thursday we anchored in Baltimore, where the smells are awful and the water is filthy but it’s exciting nonetheless! Dinner at Mama’s on the Half Shell was yummy and the lights of the Inner Harbor were beautiful.

We’d planned to stay two nights in Baltimore but instead on Friday headed up the Chesapeake Bay and into the C&D canal for Chesapeake City MD. Chesapeake City has a neat little harbor/anchoring basin but I wouldn’t recommend it if you’re looking for peace and quiet - the folks at the Chesapeake Inn on the basin were already partying when we arrived early in the afternoon, and they really love their loud boats.  Check out the picture below of a sight at the basin...

In Chesapeake City MD we anchored next to this "boat".  Check it out: one step
ladder  to the porch and another for a swim ladder, two screened doors, and who
knows what's inside?

On Saturday we set out for Cape May NJ.  Delaware Bay can get nasty and that’s why we left Baltimore a day early, for a good weather day to Cape May. 

By the time we arrived at Cape May canal, the winds were HOWLING.  Dave managed to get us thru the shallow, narrow entrance to Utsch’s marina and into the fuel dock then to our assigned slip with his usual skill. 

Upper Delaware Bay

The winds have been blowing probably 15 to 30 knots most of the time since we arrived, but it looks like they're calming and we may be able to set out in the ocean for Atlantic City in the morning.

A choppy approach to the Cape May Canal

More later, take care and have a great week!









P.S. Yesterday I had an interesting excursion in Cape May. I was aiming for a 90 min. walk. I often take long walks in unfamiliar places and have never gotten lost (unlike my friends Evelyn and Josie – a couple of years ago they got lost in Hampton and had to be escorted back to the marina by a kind police officer). So when I thought I was on the way “home” and arrived at the end of a LONG road at a dead end, I asked someone for directions back to the marina (he told me the dead end I’d just left was in “Oprah territory”, hmmm). I next encountered four large groups from the nearby Coast Guard station, jogging and chanting things like “If I want to be a Coastie I need to be fit!” Inspiring! If I had been able I would have followed them because I KNEW the way from the Coast Guard station back to the marina. Instead I had to ask for directions a second time… I figured at this point Dave would have put out an APB for me. Anyways, I made it back to MAIA after walking over two hours (seemed like at least three!). Next time I’ll take my smart phone… I did find an interesting man’s silver ring at the memorial to fishermen, bearing (the memorial, not the ring) the beautiful saying naming this post.  To be honest, I'm not sure I got it right - trying to remember it may be part of the reason I got lost!

P.P.S. I’m sorry for not communicating timely this week, we’ve had only cellular internet service.

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