Solomons MD to St Michaels MD
But .... I get ahead of myself.
The past couple of days we explored Solomons MD. What a cute town. We are cottage country for DC so it comes with its leftism but things are well kept and beautifully designed. Some of the things here date back to before the revolutionary war. Others were significant in WW 2. There is significant navy presence around this area also.
Take for example the 'state park' that shows on the map out by the point.
It looks like this on a map....
But on a satellite view.... There's this grid of white things hidden in the middle of the park...
And when you're on a boat there is a 'tunnel area' marked that is a non navigable area of the bay ...
Things aren't quite matching.
Then you drive past it on the bay and see this....
With four patrol boats lined up as a security zone around it.
From the looks of the boat it's the terminus of a natural gas pipeline that fills ships for export. It doesn't say that though anywhere on the maps and security around this ship is heavier than the security around the aircraft carriers in Norfolk. Perhaps it's just to prevent terrorism? Who knows.
Anyway, you see interesting stuff out on the water. And there are certainly lots of navy and civilian (but paid for by Navy) installations here. I don't think that is one but there were certainly several around Solomons.
We visited the lighthouse and boat builders history facility yesterday.
Lots of cool old boats built like they use them on the bay. A bit different than boats we have. Most boats here are designed for work....
I learned today at Tilghman Island what happens to old Chris Craft, Bertram and similar yachts. They cut the tops off them, repower them, build a helm way up in the bow and make the space in the back as workable as possible for loading crab, fish or whatever. I didn't take pictures because I was too busy fueling, shuttling dinghy around and trying to keep my boat off the work boats.....
We also visited the sculpture museum in Solomons this week. Cool stuff but the coolest was actually the fairy exhibit where people built little fairy houses and images and hid them or placed them all through the property. Some of them were really cool and hard to see. Others were amazing and intricate.
Anyway....
Enough about sculptures. We also did some grocery shopping, hit the bank, and rode bikes through the neighborhoods to see the area. A good time was had by all...
The peninsula we stayed on is the Calvert marina but also has a history of being a naval base training troops in WWII for amphibious landings. A cool place to have a marina and boat yard today ...
