Friday August 5 Baltimore to Fairlee Creek
We have completed our adventures of these big cities, so we will head to the east side of the Bay to enjoy some smaller towns, creeks and quiet anchorages. Very quickly we learned that Fairlee Creek was far from quiet, at least on the weekend. To enter Fairlee creek, a boat must follow the buoys carefully upon approach including a sharp turn to starboard, while powering thru the narrow opening against a strong current, and listening to the crowds on shore as they shout instructions and helpful hints for success. The channel opens to a large bay and a busy harbor on the eastern shore. We anchored in 10 ft of water ( although the chart said there was only 3 ft) and s cured our spot for the weekend. Little did we know what was to come.
Friday 5, Saturday 6, Sunday 7, -Fairlee Creek
This ended up being a great anchorage with a lot of action. We met Matt and Julie, from Chesapeake City, in Baltimore and they suggested this anchorage so we found them and thanked them for the boating advice. They also were our verbal guides as we entered the channel. It's nice to have local friends. Jellyfish Joel's is an outside bar area also at the mouth of the harbor. Besides drinks and food, they also provided live music and lots of "bikini" sightings for Tom and John. On Sunday, we sat at the mouth of the anchorage, like a local, and watched over 100 boats come into the anchorage, all kinds of boats, all kinds of people, a bridal party, party, small boats, go-fast boats, cruisers, weekend warriors, everyone looking for action and a good time.
We enjoyed a cruise in the dingy, until we ran out of water, and swimming off the boat. This is the first place where there is fresh water from the creek mixed with the salt water to make it brackish. This is the first place where there are no sea nettles, the surface water was 84 degrees and swimming and floating was greatly enjoy. John has decided this is his favorite anchorage and had he known this was waiting for him, he would have forgone the southern part of the Chesepeake Bay!
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| Beach time at Fairlee Creek opening. Watching the boats enter and exit. What sport! |
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| Finally, nettle free water we can swim in. |
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| In the dinghies out on an explore up the creek |
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| It is not all play. With water we could swim in the boats water line gets a much needed scrubbing. I use a yellow suction cup device to hold me close to the boat. |
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| The yellow duck made his first appearance on the Chesapeake Bay. 86 degree water. not real refreshing but swimmable |
Monday, August 8 - Fairlee Creek to Georgetown MD
We waited for high tide to leave the anchorage, and followed some other boaters thru the channel with no issues. We enjoyed the nine mile ride up the Sassafras River to Georgetown. We grabbed a mooring ball at the Yacht Basin and headed into shore. Our short visit into town consisted of a local fruit market, local small convenient store, liquor store and ice cream shop. We needed to do some restocking but this was not the place to do it. Everything was expensive and the choices were minimal. Tom needed beer so that was the major concern and a definite purchase. The marina had a nice pool which we enjoyed- just the four of us. Dinner was leftovers and watched some of the Olympics.
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| Georgetown Yacht Basin from there swimming pool |
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