Sleep Inn & Suites Dover

... declined. But even better than students, we were then offered cake! There was cake for the teachers that day, and the vice-principal brought some to us. I was so hungry and so excited that I forgot that I don't even really like cake! But it was so good, and helped ready us for a long, tough tear down. Nothing notable about it, really--but due to the spatial constraints, we had to employ some unorthodox tactics to get everything down. We weren't out of ...

... the 8oz Kobe fillet with mashed potatoes and carrots both were good hearty meals and with 2 coffees and 2 Pepsis set us back 32 bucks with tips my steak was almost as good as any pub eye fillet in Brisbane that you pay 28 dollars for.

We head back to the motel room to put all the electronic stuff on charge download our photos and write this log

Been a good day fairly easy first day on the road

Till the next time
Trevor and Cath

... from Annapolis.Each morning you see the workboats go out into the bay to retrieve crabs,rockfish,clams and oysters they return at sunset with their boats full of bounty and the restaurants and locals are their to buy the catch.Watermans Crab house has the best selection of seafood on the Chesapeake---garlic crabs are fantastic!!!!!We enjoy our stay in Rock hall and proceed to Kent Narrows for fuel,water and ice.They have a very strick DOG WALK POLICY OUTSIDE the ...

We left the beautiful Sassafras River and entered the shipping channel and the Elk River.This is the channel you travel to reach the C & D canal.As we left the Sassafras we saw three boats all identical cruising fast towards us IT WAS THE NAVY ESCORT BOATS----COOL!!!!!!!As they were approaching our stern a HUGE container ship was approaching our bow.This will be interesting---so we choose to go out of the shipping channel to give them plenty of room to pass.We enter ...

... 8216;semi-displacement’ trawlers carry their weight slightly above the water at crusing speed. This is why they can go 10kts plus. But they roll much more in a seaway and are not really made for open ocean passages.

So First Forty is victum to unfavorable currents and the beneficiary of favor able currents. We manage this via a metric called Speed of the Ground or SOG. It’s a display on our plotter and is calculated based ...

... then finally boated for dessert and coffee for the COST OF $50 a person.HOW COOL!!!!!They also have a BAY RIDE like our HAYRIDE it is a 50,78,or 104 mile ride flat or a 27 mile loop past historic scenery ending with a cookout and swimming.The wildlife in BLUE DOLPHINS back yard is amazing,every kind of forest bird and water fowl.Our next stop will be the Bohemia River in Chesapeake City,MD.even more secluded and beautiful.

... quiet inlets and stunning beauty, you could spend years exploring this place.

Its a very mixed and emotionial time for all of us, Harri is on the bow doing a victory dance and cant keep the smile off his face, Tom is quietly glad of returning to his friends but knows what he'll be missing out on and Pete and I can only hope that returning to work (aaahhh) will not kill us and that the next 4 years will go by quickly so we can do this all over again......

... the Little Choptank. We decided we would take a mooring in Annapolis and found one in the first row near Ego Alley and as it happens in front of our friends on Gallivant. We had drinks on Rafiki and rode in their dink to the Chart House for dinner and back to their boat for a nitecap. There were also 2 other B373s on the moorings MorgaNado we know and Eep Hour who's owners we do not know. 5/16/09 AYS Back Creek, Annapolis We are to leave Rafiki here ...

... At least I have a general idea what was goes on in softball but it's the subtle nuances that you wouldn't know without growing up playing. So I was out there praying the ball wouldn't come my way as the sweat dripped off my brow making my steamed-up glasses slip down my nose. Fortunately the oppo - and the majority of my teammates - didn't realise that I was hopeless, blind and English and I got out of the first couple of innings without being humiliated. Then it ...

... it turns out, Hannes walked out of the arrivals gate, not Kathy. And, surprised I was! I did a double take, looked at my mom (and hit her) saying, "Moooooom!" and ran over to Hannes! Needless to say, tears came to my eyes (tears of joy, of course). Not only was I surprised at the surprise, but also that my marm was able to keep the surprise (she tends to have trouble with this aspect of surprises ...