Thursday, September 22, 2016
Morning came early in Cape May with the fishing boats leaving the harbor and the coast guard trainees doing their morning rituals. We were excited to be able to go through the Cape May Canal with our 26' boat height. In our sailboat we had to travel in the ocean around the tip of Cape May and it adds at least 2 hours to your day. Peter set a course up the bay outside the shipping channel and once again had to do a lot of hand steering to cross over and back over the big waves. It's a good thing we were sailors and learned how to maneuver like this. Our boat doesn't have stabilizers and can tend to roll in certain wave conditions but Peter handled it well between adjusting the speed and angle to the waves we traveled. We left Cape may at 9 am and got to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal by 2 pm.
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| Nuclear plant |
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| Our other important tool aboard! |
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| Marker for the commercial channel to Philadelphia |
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| Looks like our Cape Cod Canal |
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Passing under a bridge
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This canal connects Delaware Bay with
the Chesapeake Bay |
On the other side of the canal we pulled into the Bohemia River to anchor for the night. We caught up with our friends, Mark and Mary Woodward, who were ahead of us after we stopped into Barnegot Bay. We quickly put the dinghy down and went over for drinks and apps.
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| Sunset over our dinghy |
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