Monday, May 13, 2013 – Deltaville, VA – Solomon’s, MD:

            After an uneventful night and morning, we left Solomon’s at around 8:30 a.m. with grandiose intentions of getting to Tilghman Creek in the Miles River, which would have been a distance of about 95 miles.  In addition to the current not being with us, and the wind picking up and howling at around 20 knots and over - by the time we reached Solomon’s, we decided the prudent course would be to head in there and anchor in Mill Creek.  I think the cat was happy we chose that course also.

            The weather has turned ridiculously chilly again.  The temperature is supposed to go down into the upper 30’s tonight!!  What happened to spring?  I am back in long pants, socks, a turtleneck shirt, sweatshirt, and jacket.  For Pete’s sake – this is the middle of May.  It also seems like we can’t shake that black cloud that seems to hover over us as we make our way up the bay.  It looks heavily laden with rain, but so far none has fallen on us!

            I think Lucy cat can sense that we are getting close to the end of our adventure.  When I came down to make lunch today, as we were being bounced all over the water, I tried to tell her that we would be home tomorrow, but I didn’t get much of a response as she was hiding under the covers.  All I received for my efforts was a disgruntled and curt, “meow.”

            We plan on leaving here tomorrow at 6:30 a.m. to get home by late afternoon.  That may be a bit of a stretch as we have 73 miles to go - although we have done more than that in one day on our trip!  We have mixed emotions about tomorrow…from happy to finally be arriving home to sad that this adventure is coming to an end and wondering how to readjust to the “real” world again!

            I’m hoping that we will have an uneventful trip the last day, but who knows – when you are on the water in a boat – anything can happen!  I’ll let you know tomorrow!

            

The last sunset