After breakfast we headed out for a morning walk. This time we located the grocery store on our GPS before leaving the boat and thought we might pick up a few things. We never know for sure just what will be offered in the small town markets, but we can always find milk, bread and a few other staples to get us through to the next stop. There were a couple of monuments to the Chesapeake Bay watermen that were very interesting. Both memorials were fashioned after the local hometown oysterman, Stanley Vasant.
We found downtown Main Street and checked out a few shops. We came close to purchasing the popular watermen’s bracelets – Maureen had her eye on the ‘CB’ version, or Chesapeake Bay, where the ‘C’ is in the shape of a crab and the ‘B’ is a rope with a lighthouse superimposed; Gale preferred the fish hook and line – but we passed them up and went on our way. The grocery store, Bayside Foods, turned out to be a very nice store indeed! Before loading up, we asked a stock clerk if there was a taxi in town because if we could get a ride, we would buy a lot more than we would if we had to walk the mile back to the boat. No problem – it turns out the store offers cruisers courtesy rides to and from the grocery. What a nice surprise!
Back on Blue Heron, we put our groceries away and had some lunch. At 1:30 pm, we had the side anchor aboard, the fenders put away and pushed away from the dock heading toward the Wye River. The sky was partly cloudy, temperature 80°F and the wind out of the west at 10 knots. We motor sailed for nearly five hours and found a quiet spot at Quarter Cove in the eastern branch of the Wye River where we settled in for a lovely evening.
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