The night on the Sassafras was great, cool enough for Luke to go for a swim, and for us to admire a fantastic Chesapeake sunset.
We left at a civilized hour today, around 8, and did the Chesapeake & Delaware canal. Luke did careful calculations for current, and we drifted through it with absolutely no problems. It's much prettier than I anticipated --- I expected a more industrialized area, what with the 886ft ships that use the canal. It was quite narrow and rather bucolic.
We've seen more great blue herons and tricolor herons in the past few days than I've ever seen. Maybe it's the migratory route? Whatever, they are so beautiful.
After exiting the canel, it took us about 3 hours on the open Daleware Bay to reach our anchorage for the night, the Cohansey River, about 15 miles from our exit point of the canal. Thurnderstorms abounded,but we managed to not get run over by any of them. However, as we approached the narrow inlet to the Cohensey, the winds picked up to about 17 knots. Luke did a FINE job of getting us through the cut. Once in the Cohansey, we found 20-100 ft of water, beautiful green, flat marshes, and hordes of green-headed jar flies. Thank GOODNESS for screens!
Up too early tomorrow morning so we can catch the current in our favor to get to Cape May, NJ, about 40 miles. We plan to spend the night, maybe a little shopping, etc, before he head up the coast for my first blue water sailing. I'm excited about it as well as a little apprehensive. But, I know we'll watch the weather carefully, and it'll be fine. Really.
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