North Chesapeake to C &D Canal

Chesapeake Bay is very wide in places - almost like an ocean so we needed to watch wind, currents & the typical (for this time of the year) late evening thunderstorms. We got a good run by hugging the west coast and only the last hour & half was unpleasant with one good wave wetting the decks for the first time since leaving St Petersburg. We had an idyllic anchorage in glass like waters in Solomons inlet. Despite a dodgy forecast the trip next day to the top of he bay was a perfect run. It could have been a boring trip - similar to the long ocean drag up the east coast in Queensland from the Gold Coast to Gladstone except for the nuclear power station restricted area, the LNG plant straddling about 6 football fields out into the bay, another restricted area where the military carry out firing practise, the large fish traps extending out from the shore & dodging all the beacons & buoys that mark these areas. There was also a huge radar dish on a cliff adjacent to a tower much like the entrance to the secret hideaway of the puppets on the TV series "International Rescue". (Remember that ? - Lady Penelope). We were wary of getting too close to take photos for fear of being shot at, There was always the obligatory  police/government patrol boat cruising the restricted areas; often shadowing us through. Why would any terrorist  bother with a country with such visible evidence of military activity - and we've only seen these on the east coast. We had another good anchorage at the top end of the Bay in Fairlie Creek.

Perfect Solomon Is Anchorage

Fishtraps a real hazard to navigation

Another Car carrier, keep clear of these
big boys. Chesapeake Bay bridge

Fairlie creek, 40ft wide entrance,30 ft
wide channel,usually packed,just 2 of us.