Rock Hall, MD - Day 255 and 256

May 25 and 26, 2016
Day 255-256

After fueling up we left Solomons Island for Rock Hall, MD.  I had read about Rock Hall being an Eastern Shore waterman's town, but had never visited.  Jake and Kimi were geared up for another day on the water.

Coming out of the Patuxent River and heading north from Solomon's Island we passed Calvert Cliffs on our port.  This a a place that many Marylanders go to look for fossils.  The layer of earth have many shark's teeth and other fossils that can be found without too much digging.

This is the Cove Point Lighthouse near Calvert Cliffs.  It is the oldest continuously operating lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay.

When we reached the area between the southern end of Kent Island and the Bay Bridge the water became quite rough, much rougher than it had been to that point.  The Blue Angels were scheduled to perform over Annapolis for the Naval Acadamy graduation and there were all kind of boats headed there.  I think the water was rough due to all of the boat wakes.  Some of the boaters were very inconsiderate with their wakes, so we had a rough five miles or so until we got north of the Bay Bridge.

Rock Hall revealed some wonderful views over the Bay from the harbour, especially in the morning.  When we arrived in Rock Hall and tid up at our dock, who should we see at the next dock over but "See to Sea".  We had spent several days in Belhaven, NC with them and the last we saw them they were turning back to the Alligator River Marina because the Albemarle Sound was too rough for them to make the crossing.  Since we had seen them last they had been up to the Deleware Bay to "cross their wake" and thus compleating their Great Loop.  They then turned back south and were heading to Norfolk to leave their boat while they returned home to Orcas Island in Washingnon State. for a while.  Ron and Viki came over to our boat for docktails and we swapped stories and they offered some advice for our upcoming section of the Loop.

We took the trolly service into town and walked around to see what was there.  Frankly there was not much and some of the stores that were there were not open for business.  This building with a boat coming out of it was vacant.

The watermen in Rock Hall used to tow these shanties behind their work boats and live in them when they were finished working for the day so they did not have to go back to town.

Main Street Rock Hall, MD

There was an old drug store with a soda fountain on Main Street that was an interesting visit.

Sharon picked up a new boater's wine glass and some wine to go with it.  She calls it an adult sippy cup.

We had pretty sunsets in Rock Hall.  We went to dinner at the Waterman's Resturant that was just steps from our dock.  I was hungry for a real Maryland crab cake and I was not dissapointed.

We decided to stay in Rock Hall for an extra day since the weather on the Delaware Bay was not looking good to transit from the C&D Canal down to Cape May for the next couple of days and the facilities and views were much nicer at Rock Hall than we were going to find in the C&D Canal.