Crossing Chesapeake Bay, we entered into Maryland and added another state to our journey.  Today’s travels took us over some of the deepest parts of the bay (124 ft).

        

As we entered the Patuxent River, we could see Solomon’s bluffs.  Ron got excited – this was the first time in a long time that the land was higher than the boat!  We docked at Zahniser’s Marina on the barrier island of Solomon.

        

We met with other loopers from “Best Day Ever” and “Proper State of Mind” at the pool and later had dinner with Dan and Jo at The Dry Dock.

Our experience at the Dry Dock:  No reservations so we sat at the bar….first we ordered crab dip…..they just sold their last one…… then we ordered burgers…..10 minutes later told they only had two burgers left…..girls switch to chicken sandwiches….then…all were served except for Karen – they burned her bun so the waiter refused to serve it – which took another 15 minutes……at Dan’s request, the bartender comped Karen a glass of wine for the wait – finally we had two burgers and two chicken sandwiches….all served with 3 french fries each…upon overhearing that, they brought us a small plate of fries to share – but by then the restaurant was closing so we ordered go boxes and headed out…….ya gotta laugh!

    

As we left the restaurant, we were surprised by 30 mph winds and a Coast Guard issued tornado warning.  We got back to Kara Mia just in time!

    

Over night the temperature dropped 20 degrees.

SECOND DAY AT SOLOMON’S – The marina shuttled us to Weis Grocery store with other boaters.  We had to wait on one another to finish before calling for the return shuttle and – once again – the mentality that “we will never see another grocery store again” set in – we’re still not sure what all we bought.

After getting provisions put away we walked to Herb’s boat “Phantom” where he invited us for a voluminous spread of cheeses, veggies and dips – and great conversation.