C & D Canal - Cheasapeake & Delaware Cities

The C & D Canal is a 14 mile canal linking the two Bays with Chesapeake City at the western end & Delaware city at the eastern end. It caters for large barges, freighters, tugs, large cruisers & all types of commercial & recreational vehicles. It's 35 feet deep and spanned by 5 bridges and when opened in 1829 after 7 years of digging with pick axes & shovels it short cut the ship route by 300 miles.
We spent 2 days at the Delaware city marina where we broke out the bikes and toured the "city" on them. Any small village seems to be called a city despite population figures so it wasn't such a big ride - our knees knew it though. The towns folk have a sense of humour  - the 2 restaurants that we ate at were "Lewinsky's on Clinton" and "Crabby Dick's". Another boating couple joined us at Crabby Dicks for dinner - where we enjoyed free crab balls compliments of the marina. I had a haircut at "Split Endz" for $20 and told her the story of the original NZ band whom a lot of hairdressers name their salons after, she was going to check it out on the web.

Chesapeake City Waterfront

The Blue Bridge

Railway bridge, lifting as we arrived

Car dealer Delaware City

No explanation necessary
But have the T shirt

Preserved original section of Canal



Downtown Delaware  City

Capt Speedy

Bike service station

The Admiral