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| Downtown St. Michaels |
On this sunny day, we dropped our dinghy and headed in to
St. Michaels with our backpacks of course. We tied up on the dinghy dock by the
Crab Claw Restaurant around 10:00 – there since 1964. We had a reservation for
13:00, so now we had time to explore the town. We walked this nice little town,
scoped out the grocery - to be our last stop
before going back to the boat. We came across the Saturday farmers market and picked
up a few veggies. There happened to be a fair this day. Vendors were setting up
their tents to sell their wares, with 6 different bands playing throughout the
day; they also had the typical food vendors…reminded me of the local carnivals
we had growing up, but without the rides.
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| High tide coming |
It didn't take long to cover the town; we even walked some
of the residential back streets…not like the new subdivisions back home, every
house different and built 50-100 years ago; some you can’t believe that people
live in them. We arrived at the Crab Claw for lunch just before noon, had our
pick of tables…right on the edge of the dock by the water…primo spot! The
placed filled up quickly. We ordered drinks, soft shell crabs and 4 regular
crabs for cracking open. The sun was out, we had nowhere to be, so we ordered 6
more crabs and sat for the next 3 hours
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| A table with a view! |
picking them. This was literately all
about sitting on the water eating crabs as the tide continued to rise and watching
jelly fish come through the deck…happens about twice a year.
We walked a couple of blocks to the grocery and stocked up
on fruits and veggies; we still had lots of meat in our freezer. The tide was
flooding more than just the restaurant, the dinghy dock was now a foot higher than the sidewalk. The sea was encroaching on the the streets...
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| Eating crab on the water!! |
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| Under water |
By sunset, there were 20 boats anchored outside of St.
Michaels. We were in bed at our now usual time of 22:00.
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