Sea-Ya! A blog created by Dan and Katie for friends and family to track us on the Great Loop!

We left Delaware City area 7am, negotiated through the tiny opening in the under water wall (thanks to GPS and the markers you don't see until you are close).  It was a beautiful day to be on the water.   50+ miles downhill. Almost zero turns.   Occasionally large ships would cruise past us and rock us as we moved down Delaware Bay.   This light house on a shoal was really cool.  Can you imagine living in there in the winter out in the middle of the bay tending light (can't see shore in any direction) Eventually we reached Cape May.  Dolphins greeted us near the canal start!   We haven't seen dolphins since way down in the Carolinas! We were told there was a humpback whale here yesterday but we didn't see it today... The water here is skinny.  Lots of watching the charts carefully and picking our line in the canal.   Even the railroad bridge crossing was tigh...

This morning I awoke early.  I was up before 6:00 and pulled us off the ball and headed out before 7:00.   Yesterday we spent the day in East Port (across the bridge from Annapolis) and did dinghy exploration.  It was a good day.  Not many pics.     We went to the Marine Museum which is really a tribute to the Oyster industry (it's in an old canning plant).  It was interesting.  There are some nice houses on the backwaters of Annapolis.   You can tell it's really suburban DC.  I guess I couldn't sleep with all of the bouncing in the mooring ball area in Annapolis.  The harbor there just bounces like crazy.   The first thing we did today was head north under the Chesapeake Bay bridge and up to the Baltimore area.  We wanted to see the Francis c Scott bridge in all of its non-glory.   Next we meandered up around a couple of islands and ...

Today we visited the US Naval Academy Annapolis.    Lots of cool buildings.   A unique culture.  Lots of success and leadership has come from this institution.  They have about 4300 students and all of them live in one (huge) building.   And all of them can eat lunch together at the same time in the mess hall.    All recruits go through the equivalent of basic training and all get full rides to school as well as getting paid (about $1300 a month) while here.    Much of the administration lives on campus in very nice campus housing designed and built by Flagg.    Lots of the buildings here built from Maine granite thanks to politics.   (A way to get the money from Congress...  Always lobbying. ).   They also have a nice museum and the hospital that eventually moved to Bethesda.   A few planes here for posterity (n...

We left St Michael's bright and early this morning and cruised slowly across the Chesapeake to Annapolis Maryland.   Annapolis is one of the must-stops that I've been really looking forward to.  Tomorrow we will visit the US Naval academy and tour its facilities.  Today we visited the Annapolis History Museum, the Chesapeake Light Craft facilities and walked to the downtown / Old Town area.  Annapolis is one of the very few places that have served as the nation's capital.  In fact some of the founding documents were written in the buildings right here that are still standing.   The Maryland State House building is the oldest active legislative building in the US.  Some of our original founding documents were written in this building.  It is still used by the legislature today much as it was at the time of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.  A relatively short journey today...