Cape May

It's an exciting day in the life of Josh and Roxanne, a day of new. New body of water, the Delaware Bay and the Atlantic ocean, new chartbook to accompany the waters, new state. What does that mean to all of you? It's means we're closer to home!!! A week and a half out about. YEAH!!!

Last night we stayed in Delaware city. We were both convinced that the canal to get in was too narrow and too shallow. It wasn't, but it was awfully close, we on had 0.5 feet under the keel. (That means there was only 6 inches of water keeping the boat afloat, not a hack of a lot.) There tides are 6 feet here, but of course we arrived and left at low tide!

The marina let us borrow their golf cart to take in town. They said to drive it like a car!!! Luckily it was a sleepy little town with not much traffic. We decided to go for an apero on a terrasse somewhere by the water. (I don't know why I feel the need to sit and look at the water having spent the last few weeks doing just that. I mean I live on a boat, I see water all the time!) Anyways we went to Crabby Dicks (usually a sign of an STD but apparently also a restaurant). They did have a sense of humour about the name. They had Crabby's balls with Seamen sauce!! And if you really liked the seamen sauce you could buy some to take home with you.

How to seamlessly segway from seamen to another completely unrelated paragraph.... with a sentence like this one!!! This morning we took off around 9am, a late start but we wanted to catch the tide going out to "flush" us out of the Delaware bay. The bay was filled with oceanliner and big tugs pushsing barges, you definitely want to avoid them. Besides that the journey down the bay was uneventful, a good thing on a boat.

The mouth of the bay had a little more going on. The marina we had orginally booked into lay along the Cape May canal and in between 2 bridges. Well we had just assumed that we'd take that canal and avoid during a big detour in the open ocean. Well upon further examination we realized that we couldn't quite make it under those bridges. Well maybe with a low tide, which we had, but then we'd run the risk hitting the bottom. So out we went.

On our way out we saw lots of dolphins. It seems like every time we have a bit of tricky maneuvering we see dolphins, a sign of good luck. Josh and I also saw what we had first thought was another dolphin but was actually a SHARK. It happened so fast that we barely believed our eyes. However upon further discussion we have reached our unanimous decision, it was indeed a shark.

Now that we're in Cape May, a very pretty little place but I'd stay off the beaches here there are sharks, we have to wait to see what the weather is doing. Our following stops are Atlantic City (maybe we could win some money!), Sandy Hook (in the mouth of New York city harbour), 79th boat basin in Manhattan, from there we go up the Hudson and into the Champlain canal to the lake. We are about a week and a half from home!

Once we get to the Hudson, we'll know exactly when we'll be home...so you can start booking your weekends!!

I've got to go, the fireworks are starting.

Miss you tons

Roxanne and Josh