R Island: July 22-24, 2014 Havre de Grace, MD

Havre de Grace is a small community at the north end of the Bay, on the western shore and at the mouth of the Susquehanna River (the great river that is the northern water source of the Bay). It was a close vote in the early 1800's that selected Washington DC as the national capitol instead and left Havre de Grace as a transportation hub for the Bay and up to Philadelphia.

Our easy 23 mile cruise from Georgetown was smooth and easy into a light northwest breeze. we did hit about 1,000,000 problems when we cruised into a giant swarm of very small gray bugs that seemed to cover the outside of the boat and US! Judie scrambled for the bug killer and we cruised out of the cloud. They all seemed to die in about 15 minutes, many with her help, and we spent several hours after docking washing them all off us and the boat.

Later in the day we went for a nice ride into town and visited several quaint shops. We found an antique store with thousands of old post cards and purchased 3 from our hometown of Mishawaka IN that were of our high school, the old hotel, and Uniroyal - the factory where all of our parents worked. Next day we bicycled to the grocery store, West Marine, and the CVS to get some supplies. Also visited the local Museum and discovered we were full of Bay information and have visited our last museum on the Bay.

The following day we rode bikes around town, made a few stops at the stores for birthday supplies (Mike and the Adi-cat). Went to dinner at Laurrapin Grill - don't bother! (The north bay has not been too good for restaurants?) and ended the day by going to a very nice concert (at the museum) - great folk songs of the area accompanied by a driving rain storm; but luckily we were inside and it stopped raining before we rode our bikes back to the boats.