Solomons, United States Travel Blogs

All systems go!
Oct 20, 2008 (2 photos)

... 10am on a beautiful clear and calm morning.  However, calm is not good for sailors and we motored all the way to Solomons Island in the company of at least 6 other Snowbirds.  We saw our first pelican today swooping and diving on its prey.  ...

Sirens Song
Sep 20, 2007

Its been written that the sea calls a sailor as a siren.  This is true, but often home calls louder and the call is getting louder for Sue and me.  We left home last April 20 and while it has been an amazing sojourn, we are very ready to see ...

Tomorrow's the day
Jun 30, 2007

Today I said "Today's the day", but it wasn't. "Today's the Day" was the slogan of the famous treasure hunter who exploited all the Key West wrecks.  He always felt today would be the day he would find the treasure.  Well today was going to ...

Solomons Maryland
Jun 7, 2009 (13 photos)

Todays sail was one of our better ones in a while as the sun had finally decided to shine and with a light breeze we were able to have a great sail up to Solomon's. Being a Sunday there were plenty of boats out enjoying the waterway and the ...

CHILLING IN THE SOLOMONS
Jun 7, 2009 (6 photos)

... TIME THE LIVE MANEUVERS ARE "DROPPING BOMBS"AS WE APPROACH THE MOUTH OF THE PATUXENT RIVER TO ENTER THE SOLOMONS THE "FAMOUS CALVERT CLIFFS" COME INTO SIGHT.THESE CLIFFS CONTAIN THE OLDEST PREHISTORIC FOSSILS IN THE WORLD.SHARKS TEETH,WHALE,DOLPHIN ...

Crab cakes at Stony's
May 16, 2008

... .  The weather is pleasant and the wind light.  So by 1400 we are heading up the river with the creek surrounding Solomons in sight.  When you enter Solomon's, it's hard to appreciate how far back the creek goes and how many marines are in ...

Blue Heron Inn
Feb 22, 2009 (9 photos)

My room was very nice with window seats on both the east and west side showing sunrise and sunset over water!

Stopover at Zahniser's-Solomons MD
May 18, 2008

... in the 50s.  Wind was from the South 10-20 kt so we had to motor the whole way to our stopover at Solomons MD without a working autopilot.  We had a reservation to tie up at the transient dock at Zahniser's Yacht Center so that we could have ...