St Michael’s

 5/9- Dunn Cove to St Michael’s 

   We left very early this morning so as to try and beat the wind and rain. As it turned out we had neither. We did however get to see the house that went with the Bald Eagle Point farm. It was truly an impressive sight. The homes surrounding Dunn Cove and a lot of the coast here are not the flashy architectural wonders you see further south. These are mansions in the truest sense of the word. Stately columns and red brick walls make these homes worth oooing over. The best part though is that they are spread out. They are not so close together you could barely fit a lawn mower between them like Florida. 

   The bay was again like glass, there was barely a ripple on the water. We decided to try a route that took us inside Poplar Island. Poplar Island is a man made island owned by the Army Corps of Engineers and is used as a depository for the spoils of dredging. Uniquely though they have turned it into a nesting habitat for wildlife such as eagles and osprey and other birds. 

   The only trouble with this route is at the southern end of the channel it is very shallow. The deepest part of the channel here is only 7 feet and that part is narrow and winding with no buoys. It was a little nerve wracking but we slid through with no problems. 

   We pulled into the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and tied up to their dock. We are here for a Cape Dory rally that we signed up for back in November. Who says we can’t keep to a schedule. We even arrived a day early. This is a very interesting place and we started to check it all out. The town of St Michael’s is in a word charming. Again lots of shops with nothing for us to buy. It is kind of pretty though. 

    The dock they have us on has the stern of the boat facing east which of course is where the wind is blowing from. That has made the boat a little bouncy and noisy with the wavelets slapping the hull. It should lull us right to sleep. 

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