Solomons Island

It is 9:15PM and the weather tonight is absolutely perfect. I had to drag myself in from the aft deck to do this blog. (but you are all worth it) We arrived at Spring Cove Marina around 11:30 after leaving the anchorage at Smith's Creek and went to the fuel dock before going to our slip and took on 675 gallons of gold, or you would think diesel is gold for what they charge for it. As I said before, Solomons is a big first stop for cruisers on the Chesapeake. There are about 20 Marinas and Yacht Clubs in a very small area not including the restaurant docks. A very busy area. After the big bite at the fuel dock, we headed out on our bikes and found the tourist shopping area and a great seafood restaurant called Stoney's, and had what this area is famous for, crab cakes and soft shelled crab. The crab cakes were mostly crab with very little filler and the soft shelled crab was one of the best I have ever had. Stoney's was not just a little over priced, it was allot over priced, but very very good. Today we headed out on (we need to name our bikes) our bikes to West Marine to check it out, (can't go into a West Marine without buying something) and another great specialty grocery store called Woodburn's Gourmet Market for some provisions. One of the things we bought were 2 floats for hanging out in the water when we are at anchor. :-) Tomorrow we head out for another anchorage not to far from here for the week end. We love to anchor and explore and the cost is zero.

See you at the anchorage,
September Song out
Bob


Tuesday night t-bones on the fly bridge, YUM

Solomons waterfront on the Chesapeake

You do the math, ouch!