Chester River and Centerville

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We’ve just spent a couple of very pleasant days anchored in the Corsica River, just off the Chester River, southeast of Rock Hall.  We stopped in a beautiful part of the river lined with trees, interspersed with large homes tucked away in the woods.  One afternoon we were sitting in the pilot house and watched a bald eagle fly over us. Nice!

We used our time here to practice deploying the flopper stoppers and the dinghy. After several attempts, we got a good feel for the flopper stoppers. Though deploying them in windy/bumpy circumstances (when they are needed…) will add a bit of excitement into the mix.  We’re planning on practicing this regularly so we’ll be efficient at it when we need it.

Blossom looking stately at anchor

Monday we went exploring the bay in the dinghy and then we took our bikes in the dinghy up the Corsica to Centerville.  Louise and I road the bikes to a quilt store – yes, we found yet another quilt store!  It was a nice store and we both found some “must have” fabric J The guys walked around town, filled a jerry can with gasoline and stopped for a drink. We met up at Doc’s for a very good, early, dinner.  And as night was falling we headed back down river and I practiced driving the dinghy. It was a bit of cheat since I could follow Martin’s bread crumbs on the GPS but it was fun, and good experience for me.

We only stayed a couple of nights because we had very limited phone service and no internet. Martin needs to arrange for some service work to be done in Baltimore next week so we headed to out anchor in the Patapsco River on Tuesday. It’s about 25 nautical miles northwest of where we were anchored on the Corsica and located in a suburban area of Baltimore.