Seaside Park - a friend's favorite childhood beach
The view from our anchorage in Absecon Inlet (Atlantic City) |
Absecon Light dwarfed by the big buildings |
We spent a day on the hook at Cape May, just off the Coast Guard Training Center - listening to night-time training ops, Reveille at 8am and the National Anthem which followed. It was very cool. The town of Cape May is very sweet and we enjoyed a good long walk and a little shopping.
Leaving at dawn on Tuesday, we headed out of the inlet, took a right around Cape May and up into the Delaware Bay. There we skirted the 3/10ths mile wide Canal to avoid the ship traffic (of which there is always much!) and entered the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal mid-afternoon.
After passing under the six bridges along the canal, one of our local friends stood waving at us from the dock at Schaeffer's Marina as we tied up for the day. We enjoyed a great meal at the marina restaurant with our new friends from "Sanderling," an Island Packet 45. The menu offered 14 items in which Blue Crab was involved - from Sharon's point of view, that is the best!
We are looking forward to a couple weeks in the Chesapeake Bay. This is where we bought Dream Catcher and spent the first several years enjoying sailing the waters. It feels like coming home.