Happy Anniversary

George and I celebrated our 42nd wedding anniversary yesterday with dinner at Doc’s Riverside Grille in Centreville. It was a good plan b after we gave up on being anchored in the current at Chestertown. Yesterday was another hot day so we spent a lot of it doing as little as possible so as not to work up a sweat. We had moved farther up the Corsica River closer to the wharf in Centreville. We anchored in yet another very pretty and peaceful anchorage on the Corsica River. We watched a line of thunderstorms march past just to the south of us in the afternoon. The weather cleared just in time for dinner. As we dinghied to the wharf we passed by the house of the owner of the Baltimore Ravens. George had read that he has a house nearby and that he sometimes has his huge yacht docked there.  The yacht wasn’t there but we are pretty sure we picked out the right house. It was the only one with a dock large enough to accommodate his yacht. We once saw the yacht in Cambridge. He brought it to the Hyatt in Cambridge for his daughter’s wedding. The Hyatt is just past the Choptank River bridge which has an air clearance of 50 feet. The captain had to wait for low tide in order to get the motor yacht under the bridge to the Hyatt. 

This morning we motored down the Corsica River then crossed the Chester River to Langford Creek. Along the way we picked out the closed Russian Embassy Retreat at the mouth of the Corsica River. George had read on Active Captain that it was somewhere around there and confirmed its location on Google Maps. The retreat (a very large brick house) was mostly hidden behind trees (no surprise there). We stopped at Langford Bay Marina for fuel and water before we anchored. We have motored every day for the past four days so we wanted to top off the fuel while we had the opportunity. We aren’t using the water maker in the Chesapeake so it made sense to fill the water tank, too. We actually could use the water maker if we had another pre-filter. Since we are never far from civilization around here it doesn’t seem worth it.