Quiet Harbor

Monday morning we awoke to a grey blustery day. I went for a jog on the short (1.5  mile) nature trail and ran errands while John stayed aboard to meet the repairman to address a couple of minor issues that he has been trying to get addressed

Debbie and Mike arrived around 11:00 to an almost empty St. Michael's harbor.  75% of the boats that had been here on the weekend were gone. I wondered how we were going to keep Mike and Debbie from going stir crazy, without great bike riding or kayaking weather in a sleepy little Maryland harbor town on a Monday. Yikes!!!

When Debbie and Mike arrived we whisked them off to the Cheaspeake Maritime Museum where we learned a lot about oystering and crabbing.  The buildings included a lighthouse which used to be located 5 miles off shore that was manned for years at a time by a single person. He would be out in the middle of the ocean with nothing around and everything would freeze over in the winter. It’s hard to imagine years of that!

We had dinner on the patio at Ava’s where they had a very neat outdoor ‘draft beer’ tap fountain.