Annapolis

Before we left the anchorage this morning I took a picture of this house with lighthouse that is on the small island that we are in front of. Funny, Canada is dropping supporting many lighthouses, but here is this guy who has is own – maybe he could pay for a few of ours :)

There are quite a few well off houses that have there own lift for their powerboats for winterization/maintenance etc, but this is the first time I have seen a personal lift for sailboats which weigh a lot more.

We had a lazy morning, did some reading and didn’t depart until 11:00. The anchor was very hard to lift and I was starting to think it was caught on something big, but when it eventually came up it was full of soft mud so it just well buried. We motored the short distance to Annapolis and I managed to avoid playing chicken with any more 600’ ships………  
Here is a picture of a bridge that crosses the Chesapeake Bay, as you see it must have started of as one bridge but they added a second part. 

We took a mooring for a couple of days at the city docks as the anchorages are somewhat restricted and we wanted to be close to some facilities. Annapolis is a cool old town, it has tons of shops, catering mostly to tourists of course. Here are some pictures of one of the streets. There is a tall ship in town (16^th century Spanish Galleon) called the “El Galeon Andalucia” where you can pay money to go aboard, hmm, I would more likely pay someone to go ashore right now….

Also shown is a statue of Alex Haley reading to kids, which is here to commemorate the arrival of Kunta Kinte which was featured in his book “Roots”.

Tomorrow we plan to do some more exploring around town, pick up groceries, fill up with water and go to a couple of marine stores (my favorite part :)).