We spent 4 days in Annapolis, which is like a circus because we were anchored in the wide channel between 2 huge marinas and a fuel dock, with more marinas all along the river. The river is jammed full of sail and power boats of all sorts, but predominantly big and expensive. Boats are constantly going out the channel and coming in, especially on nice evenings and weekends. It's like camping on the median strip of a busy highway. Annapolis is good to cruising boat; allowing boats to anchor in the channel is amazing as we swing in all directions and the traffic has to go around us. Also there are public dinghy docks, which many places don't have, and I believe I mentioned the nice showers at the Harbor Master's office, which have cost $1.00 since we first discovered them in 1987.
Wednesday, June 19 we actually sailed to the Rhode
River, a couple of hours away and stayed there 2 days. It's a big, wide open space, more like a lagoon
than a river. There is a Smithsonian
research center with a dinghy dock where you can go ashore. We went twice and walked on their trails
through beautiful open woods. I swam a
little, but there are some jelly fish now and they make us nervous about going
in the water. On Friday afternoon, we motored about 10 miles back to the South
River, on the outskirts of Annapolis, and anchored in a small creek with houses
along the shore, but so far no other anchored boats. By chance there is wifi
available so I can post this.
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