We spent Labor Day weekend in Cambridge, MD. This town has the greatest number of civil war era homes we have seen so far, most towns will have a block or two, here there was 5 city blocks of two and three story Queen Anne and colonial homes, all gorgeous and each one just a bit different. We also saw yet another way to crab… scraping (pulling a dredge through the grass beds where blue crabs hide), each area has their own style of crabbing.
Cambridge Yacht basin has a full scale lighthouse replica with a small museum inside, every water town in the Chesapeake has some sort of maritime museum, this volunteer effort to build the lighthouse was a testament to the towns ties to the water.
We biked around town, one of the murals is for local Harriet Tubman who returned 13 times on the Underground Railroad to help others.
We had the dock mostly to ourselves until the Eastport Yacht Club arrived for their annual cruise and crab feed. It was very festive being in the row of club members.
We wanted go to the Christ Episcopal Church but it was closed this weekend and services were in the auditorium down the street. We went anyway and enjoyed staying for their annual potluck (the reason for the venue change). After the service and potluck lunch, a couple of church members gave us a tour of the church. We gave out many of our boat cards, even to the priest, who himself had a Sea Ray for many years and was very familiar with the Loop.
And Shout out to the delicious restaurants in Cambridge, Snappers Waterfront, RAR Brewing/Chessie Burger and Carmela’s Cucina.
We left Cambridge as part of the departing yacht club. Fun! We really enjoyed this stop.
