Finally, the engine is ready and we pull away from the Annapolis City Dock under grey skies, but thankfully no rain. On the way out of the harbor, we pass several of the 110 foot Navy Yard Patrol boats used for training the midshipmen on boat handling and seamanship. They are almost constantly out in the harbor, turning, backing and moving around.
Further out in the Bay we pass the Melges world championship races being held this week. There are 52 boats from all over the world participating.
Moving south down the Bay we need to pass around Bloody Point Bar Light to enter Eastern Bay. The trees are beginning to reach full color in this area.
The light stands in 10 feet of water. I was about 100 yards off the light in 165 feet of water. Moving up Eastern Bay we pass another workboat.
Soon, we reach the Miles River and then its tributary, the Wye River. The Wye River - divided into three branches - embraces the 2,250 acre Wye Island National Wildlife Refuge along 21 miles of shoreline. Fields of grain roll down to the water's edge. Watermen putter around in wooden boats, trotlining for crabs. All is serene with an air of suspended time, as if nothing has changed in 200 years.
I took lots of photos of trees, finally Katy said "I think you have enough pictures of trees".
Here is the Anchor Diva doing her thing.
At times the sky was darkened by flocks of migrating geese.
We spent two nights anchored in this serenity with only the occasional fishing boat passing by. Then, onward to St Michaels.
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