Day 30: Edgewater to Rock Hall

We awaken this morning to low cloud and light rain. It's going to be another short voyage today (we feel obliged to break Jan in gently), up the bay to Rock Hall on the eastern shore, where Preston has promised us we'll find a premier crab restaurant. Some of us don't take disappointment well--especially when it involves food--so he'd better be right!

We're away from the Burr Yacht Sales dock in Selby Bay shortly after 1000 in light misty rain and a very light breeze. We cruise north, past three ships at anchor--two empty bulkers and one loaded with wind turbine blades--and beneath the enormous Chesapeake Bay Bridges.

We tiptoe into the Rock Hall harbour and are secured alongside at the Rock Hall Landing Marina by around 1520. We leave Preston to the housework (which he insists on) and we four head off in the light, misty rain for a walk into town. A local appears and wishes us well and that we enjoy Rock Hall's 'liquid sunshine'.

Some quilt material is purchased and at another shop I get some jandals (thongs, to we Aussies) and at yet another store we buy some goods for the boat. We walk along Main Street and back and are struck by the sheer quaint and quirky presentation of houses. Jan decides bravely, that it's the nicest wee town in the whole USA. Certainly, she's mightily impressed with the crab bisque and is now, quite possibly, a Maryland crab aficianado... but don't tell her!.

The rest of us have crab cakes, delicious hush puppies, and various sides, and are too replete to have desert. Graeme has a slice of Key Lime Pie packaged to take home.

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