More on Chesapeake Bay esp.Annapolis, Maryland.

We are currently still in Annapolis. This is definitely the sailing capital of America.Thousands of boats mostly sail boats.Also a place to repair sails. Ours needed some work. It came back repaired today.We will likely move on tomorrow or Thursday.
  We left Deltaville, Virginia last Wednesday and headed across the Chesapeake Bay to Onancock, a quaint little town with a great restaurant. We were surprised by a visit from folks on a trawler. The neat part was that they, Ben and Hanneke are from Fergus ,Ontario and that they had anchored beside us at Kilbear Park in Georgian Bay about 8 or 9 years ago.Bill remembered sharing a coffee on their trawler there.Small world. .From Onancock we went west again across the Bay to an anchorage in the Solomon's Island area. This must be the 2nd sailing capital in America. Lots of marinas and many sailboats. This is when Chris and Juanita  confirmed that they wanted to visit us in Annapolis. We were pretty excited to say the least.With winds and currents in our favour we were in Annapolis around 1p.m. on Friday..Ready to receive our guests who arrived later in the p.m.What a treat to see them all.   Seeing Annapolis by water without a boat show going on, gave us a totally different perspective of this busy, popular sailing community.From our boat we could watch young sailors training in their dingy sailboats, schooners taking people out on tours and other tour boats.The water  taxis were kept busy taking people from their boat or marina to the historical town of Annapolis[Capitol of Maryland]. We enjoyed  their services too.The 2 youngest ,Michael and Nora travelled free. Chris and the kids had their private tour on our dingy with 'papa' as their tour guide a few times.Lots to see and explore. The flowers , the architecture, the detail on the store fronts etc. captured our attention too .The ice cream cones were also a hit  with it being such warm sunny weather.We were all able to fit into Chris and Juanita's navigator to go to Church for Sunday worship at Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Annapolis.
We were thankful for  this opportunity and for what we learned..
  Yes, we were sad to have to say goodbye  again ,but the adventure continues with New York City being the next big highlight. And more family planning to come to visit us there.

Main St Annapolis

Harbour View

Schooner tour

State Capitol in background

School children on an outing

Sailing lessons June12/12