Pasadena, MD

Sharing the channel: Vector on the left, USCG cutter in the middle and a large container ship to the right

Passing some of the tall ships and sail boats leaving Baltimore Harbor

On Wednesday we crossed the Chesapeake Bay and anchored in Rock Creek.  It was a four hour cruise that got interesting once we entered the Patapsco River. There were Coast Guard Cutters and freighters along the channel.  We got this image of Vector cosying up next to the two. They weren’t really that close but the distance makes the photograph look very exciting!

We anchored in a little bay just around the corner from Vector but were bummed to find that we had no 4G and limited internet from a nearby open source. So we moved around the corner the next morning where both were better, even though it was less than a quarter mile away. This was a quiet area and really beautiful. On Wednesday, we dropped the kayaks and Martin and I peddled to the end of Rock Creek. We were rewarded at the end by arriving in a tranquil bay and having a bald eagle fly overhead, land in a tree and watch over us.

Rock Creek

The end of Rock Creek, there’s a bald eagle in a tree just left of center

Jim towed a kayak over to Vector so Sean could give it a try

Wednesday was spent getting a lot of errands done.  Martin was able to contact the service reps for the generators and schedule them to come out on Monday. We made marina reservations for our visit farther south the first week of October and I arranged for my Mom to come visit us after Baltimore for a week aboard. We also got great news from PAE that Jim will be able to take us down to Stuart/Ft. Lauderdale in mid-October for the Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show. We’re very happy that he’ll be our delivery captain and will accompany us back down!

Sean & Louise, heading out to dinner to dinner on Petal

Sean and Louise have marina reservations nearby for the next two nights so we decided to head into the inner harbor of Baltimore on Thursday.  A local couple that passed by told us that there’s a Hall & Oats concert tomorrow night that we’ll probably be able to hear it from where we'll be docked so we’re planning on cocktails on the fly bridge tomorrow evening!