Day 30- Deale, MD to Rock Hall, MD

With the new alternator installed we had to check it out and make sure it was working properly. We were also antsy to leave Herrington Harbour. The bay may be a little rough, let's find out.

The sun is coming up earlier every day. We left at 6:30am and it was beautiful.

Looking back on Herrington Harbour there are a lot of sailboats docked there.

As we approached Baltimore area we only saw 5 ships anchored and no movement of commercial traffic. Made for easy navigating.

It wasn't raining but there was a huge amount of spray from the waves. The ride became more rock-n-rollie as the morning commenced.

Riding high in the water it was an empty ship.

This is a roll on, roll off car carrier. Again empty.

We will be too far from the Francis Key Scott bridge in Baltimore to see the work being done there, but, we did pass under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. It is a major dual-span bridge in the U.S. state of Maryland. Spanning the Chesapeake Bay, it connects the state's rural Eastern Shore region with its urban and suburban Western Shore, running between Stevensville and Sandy Point State Park near the capital city of Annapolis. The original span, opened in 1952 and with a length of 4 miles (6.4 km), was the world's longest continuous over-water steel structure.
(info per Wikipedia)

Ok, I like taking bridge pictures.

Thomas Point Light House
The southernmost point of the peninsula on which Annapolis is situated is called Thomas Point, after Philip Thomas, one of its early owners who arrived in Maryland from Bristol, England in 1651. Click on the link for the history of this lighthouse.

Sandy Point Lighthouse
Sandy Point light is located on the main-land, from which place continuous shoals make out into the bay, a distance of about one mile, and vessels drawing more than ten feet of water cannot approach within that distance of the light-house. While it doesn't appear to be on land it does have a massive caisson foundation situated on the shoal. There is an interesting write up on this lighthouse. Check it out by clicking on the blue link.

This video shows the full motion of the ride. 

If it won't play here you can see it on YouTube.

Mother nature threw all of this stuff on the floor! 

We tuck and store the larger things so they don't get wings and fly. Normally these small things just slide around. Not today.

We set off to the North, but the wind and waves actually performed as predicted.  Dang! We bailed out of Plan A and made for Plan B, Rock Hall, MD on the Eastern Shore.  But to get there we had about 4 miles of beam seas to contend with.  That didn't stop Cookie from making smoothies, though!

Back in the calm waters of the marina we spotted this.

Never seen this before!  A local yard launching boats.  They have this clever apparatus - a float with a V-shaped notch, with a winch to pull the bow of the boat in snug, with a rig that allows the whole motor to swing 360 degrees!  Very clever - and it does have Maryland registration numbers on it, crew in a lifejacket and one guy on the sailboat with a helmet.

Saw this momma with her babies on the walk to dinner.

Came back to this spectacular sunset.

The lonely heron.

Wild painted sky! No filters, no photoshop. Looked like that to the human eye too.

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