We Have Liftoff

They’re off.

Well two of them are, we took off about 8:30 am Wednesday for the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, a mighty waterway dividing the northernmost counties of Maryland and Delaware from the rest of the said states.
Just in the entrance a Des. Res. In need of some TLC, probably a remnant of Sandy

A bit further in, a tug hauling many barges and several miles of dredge pipe.  Some of you may recall the last time I met one of these down in Goose Cut Georgia, I always meet them under bridges or some other restricted spot, they are nonchalant about the encounter but it’s white knuckles for me.

The canal itself is not a giant. It’s all of fifteen miles long and only half of it is in Delaware but it manages to bisect the state.

Two hours later we were in Delaware Bay, a tidy body of water, heading for Cape May about fifty miles South, yes, I am aware we are headed North but boats need water and if the water goes South so does the boat.

Here’s the Coastguard again, jealously guarding the Salem Nuclear station in the background, I suppose it’s possible some one could steal it.

Halfway down the bay in the middle of the ship channel is ………..Ship John Shoal  not much but it is all rock.

Then, a beauty, she looks very like an old Trumpy, a classic wooden yacht from the past, they used to be built in Maryland and there are still quite a few in private (read rich) hands around here.

Into Cape May at 6:30 pm a good days run in an old slow boat………..about 80 miles.

Tomorrow OUTSIDE     into the North Atlantic.

Author: Low Wattage

Expat Welshman, educated (somewhat) in UK, left before it became fashionable to do so. Now a U.S. Citizen, and recent widower, playing with retirement and house remodeling, living in Delaware and rural Maryland (weekends). View all posts by Low Wattage