Sunny Days: St. Michaels to Annapolis

St. Michaels was a great little burg and really good people watching. The historic churches and homes were great and it must be a destination wedding site because half of the people there seemed to be dressed to go to a wedding or had awful bridesmaid dresses in cleaner’s bags. The anchorage up San Domingo Creek was crowded but really calm with a great sunset. Sunday was a perfect morning to zig back across the Chesapeake from St. Michaels to Annapolis. The waters were fairly calm; it was sunny and no gusty winds. There were sailboats in abundance and we had to dodge them like crab pots, but we figured if you had a boat and weren’t out on it on a beautiful day like this—well you might as well sell it. We listened to Charlie Chase and Lori Anne Crook with the Country Countdown and saw a lot of rays (or were they skates?!) in the pretty green waters. Around 2:30pm we pulled into busy Annapolis Harbor and grabbed a mooring ball so we could settle down and watch the parade of boats coming into Ego Alley. Ego Alley is the canal in downtown Annapolis where all the go-fast boats and yachts come to show off their stuff. A bright and sunny Sunday afternoon in June seemed to be the ticket. About dusk we went over on the East Bank to one of the many restaurants (Boatyard Bar and Grille-yum) to give the waters some time to settle down—up until dark we were rocking and rolling with the traffic and we knew once it got dark it would settle down—WRONG. Apparently it was not only the traffic making such choppy water but the southerly winds brought in rollers from the Chesapeake. After an unrestful night we resolved to move down the creek for Monday night but the parade had been fun.