Full day at Solomons

This beautiful swan greeted Gail this morning at Solomons!

We spent most of the day at the local museum with great displays of local history and sea life. The high point was a cruise on the only registered "log canoe" in existence.

This is the oldest registered boat of any kind on the East Coast and probably the second oldest in the U.S.

This "Bugeye" oyster boat is the same kind of construction as that built by Joshua Slocum to sail with his wife from South America to Boston as described in his book "Single Handed around the World."

Another fascinating adventure was climbing this "screw pole" lighthouse which once stood on Drum Point at the mouth of the Patuxent River. This is the same design as the "Mid Bay" lighthouse in Mobile Bay.

Tomorrow we will set sail up the Patuxent River, the route the British took when they sailed from the Chesapeake up the river and burned the White House and Capitol during the Revolution. From there we will cross the Bay and find an anchorage or two on the Eastern Shore.