St. Michaels marinas were booked with a waitlist and had holiday rates for the labor day weekend which is how we ended up in Cambridge last week. While we were in Cambridge, several of our new friends encouraged us to anchor at “the back door” to town i.e. San Domingo Creek. We had a short run and entered a creek with a winding maze of markers around several small islands. At the end of the (big) creek was a protected anchorage, big enough for 10 boats. The public dingy dock was less than 1,000 feet away. Turns out even after seeing the marina choices in town we knew anchoring was the best choice for us and the town was beautiful.
This laser cut topography map shows just how much of the Chesapeake is made up of hundreds these small creeks and coves.
We keep running out with the telephoto when the geese migration honks begin, we have seen some pretty amazing low Flying V formations over the water. These are the best photos so far.
On day two, we went to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and saw and exhibit about the migration path of the geese. We are in the thick of their migration!
The museum consisted of several buildings with exhibits, photos and information about the Chesapeake over the centuries. There is so much to see – its a two day ticket just in case you want to come back!
One of the Exhibits was of a couple who spent their life on the Chesapeake, their boat was on display in a slip.
This is the 1879 Hooper Straight Lighthouse, another of the screw types that are here in the mid Atlantic.
We went back for one last day at St. Michaels and we took a short cut back to the museum.
Very exciting my first blue crab ~ it will not be the last.
We do like to play.
A mystery shipwreck, one of hundreds in the coast.
Another “we will be back” kind of town, onto the next one.
