On the way out of Baltimore, we passed the big Navy supply ships, the huge hospital ship "Comfort", and these gigantic, guppy shape carrier ships, all of which we had seen on our harbor cruise of Baltimore 2 days ago. Geoff had noticed that the shining spots next to the huge carrier ships were all Mercedes Benz cars, so they're auto delivery ships (with an appropriate German sounding name).
Then on our way up in the Chesapeake, we got passed by an armored tank racing across the water of the bay! Really! a genuine Army tank with a canon and turret on top and everything!
In fact, we got passed twice, since it went down the bay and then turned around and went back up past us again. I know it's hard to see any detail, but it's simply a tank. It made an absolutely huge spray as it powered through the water, and it had a military escort boat and some other observation boat trailing along. Kathy said that her charts labeled this area the "Aberdeen Proving Grounds". I don't think the tank slowed down to reduce it's wake to a courteous level as it passed. Rude Army guys!
It was a nice flybridge day with blue skies, temps about 80 and waves of about 1 ft. The C&D Canal was pretty much a straight shot dug through to connect these two huge bays at the top. It has homes, pastoral scenes and bridges as you go through. Of course, if Kathy has a donut, she also has a best friend paying close attention. We got those donuts (and some cookies) at Berger's Cookies in Baltimore at the Marketplace, where we also had a great crabcake for lunch yesterday at Faidley's. Geoff - it was really good.... second only to Tristan's in Charleston. You'll have to try Tristan's with us sometime.
Tonight, we're staying at the marina in Delaware City. "City" is somewhat of a misnomer because we saw almost every street in this teeny town in about half an hour riding in the marina's loaner golf cart. Tomorrow, we plan to run down the Delaware Bay to the ocean at Cape May where we'll stay for a few days to see the area.
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