June 10, 2009 Solomons, MD

We left Hampton, Virgina on Sunday morning June 7th under light winds- 5 kts so we motored up the Chesapeake Bay about 47 nautical miles to an anchorage called Fishing Bay. Lots of pleasure craft and fishing boats in the bay under blue skies and calm seas. Fishing Bay is a pleasant quiet anchorage. We had the company of several sail and power boats anchored not far from us. Up at 6:30 am the following morning for another light wind trip north about 60 nautical miles to Spring Cove Marina in the Solomons which is about 60 miles south of Annapolis. We are having some minor boat maintenance done at this marina. This is the same marina that put in our new engine a year and a half ago. It is a lovely marina. We were surrounded by baby gosslings while at Great Bridge.

Almost all of the channel markers along the intercoastal waterway had nests of baby Ospreys. Some of the nests had 3 babies and both mother and dad where feeding them.