Back across the Bay

A few updates to yesterday's post. The Log Canoe that we took the cruise on is the "Wm. B. Tennison." It was built in 1899 and served as an oyster boat. The boat is part of the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, MD. Their website is www.calvertmarinemuseum.com. On the way out of the Solomons harbor we passed a webcam on a piling of an Osprey nest. The website is http://www.life.umd.edu/biology/paynterlab/video/webcam.html. While we were on the boat a reporter for a local newpaper approached us and said they had taken our picture. They were doing a story on the seasons first cruise of the Wm B. Tennison and asked why were were aboard. We don't know if they printed a story, but their website is www.somdnews.com.

Today we departed Solomons and cruised up the Patuxent River to St. LeonardCreek. It was at the mouth of this creek that Commodore Joshua Barney drove off a British blockading fleet during our country's second war with Great Britain. I think we said it was during the revolution, but I suspect Durelle is going to correct that and say it was the war of 1812. Onthe way back down river we explored Mills Creek, shut down the engine and had lunch. Fulton Lewis Jr. a
WWII correspondent had a home on Mills Creek.

After lunch we motored across a calm Bay to the Little Choptank River and found a snug anchorage in Hudson Creek, where we lay at anchor at this moment.