Mon, May 22 San Domingo Creek to Rock Hall MD
It started raining in the night and continued most of the day. Rain usually makes for calm seas as the rain beats down the waves. That was the case today as the bay was flat except for the raindrop circles. When pulling up the anchor, we saw that a waterman put a crab trot line in front of the boat. The waterman, Lady B, is know to harass and aggravate cruisers. As he watched us pull up the anchor, we avoided his line and his attitude and made it away cleanly. Upon heading out of the Broad River, we saw 15-20 watermen working their trot lines in the pouring, constant rain. A difficult way to make a living. There was a lot of activity on the Bay today: charter fishing boats, watermen with fish lines and crab pots, cruisers moving north and south, and commercial ocean going ships - all in the constant falling rain. It seemed as we pulled into Rock Hall, the rain eased fo the day and cloudy skies prevailed. Pam and Art on Tinacious docked with our 2 boats and we enjoyed an evening together: dinner at Bay Wolf restaurant and musical entertainment of piano and a jazz singer at the Main Stay. Back at the boats, Tom and Colletta then played cards, euchre, with Art and Pam and the girls got beat bad. Didn't ruin Colletta's night tho, she still slept a baby.
The red thing in the middle of the picture is the float
for a crabber's trotline that he laid right in front of our boat.
Traffic going up the Chesapeake Bay
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