we do love that annapolis, don't we!?
it was back there once again this morning for a few things at target (they've got a escalator for shopping carts there!), and to the grocery store for provisions for the next couple weeks. yes, couple weeks! yippee! that's cause pam and owen and i are going gunkholing until annie and jason come to gunkhole with us some more. i think they'll be here july 6th or so! we will be dropping papa jerr bear off on the hard in the morning, and then will go where the wind takes us. it's nice to have guests, but we are both very much looking forward to having some time alone!
after our successful shopping trip we went to the old city dock and had sweet iced cream. t'was a rather hottish day, so the iced cream had no problem finding it's way into our mouths and on down to our innards.
when we'd stowed all our new gear and provisions onto cricket we slipped our slip at herrington harbour (not without a little windy, launchy drama... almost taking the gps reciever off her stern). headed over to pump the gunk out of our holding tank (did you know that you can actually see your little turds pump through the sucker device? pretty cool!). then it was out to the bay (herring bay), just around the corner. just 4 miles or so down the shore, and down the anchor. beautiful spot! we'd gotten the idea to stay here when we'd seen others doing the same when we came back to herrington last time. great spot with an expansive view of the bay on one side, and lovely views of the shores trees and cliffs and houses on the other. we all three had a cool swim around the boat (cricket looks so happy and beautiful from the water!). owen came out from the cabin, and was checking out the surroundings, even to the point of poking his head over the ladder! perhaps he wanted to have a little swim too? i doubt it, but he sure didn't seem to hold any grudges from being thrust into the water last time. he's been an amazing ship's cat!
we've been watching "skates" swim all around us this evening. skates are a form of a sea ray. they swim near the surface sometimes, and when they do they stick the ends of their two wing like fins up out of the water, and it looks like a couple of dancing sharks going by. very fun! the golden sunset behind the shore was so serene, with the silver sliver moon following close behind. amazing! as the stars were poking out we went below for one last game of cutthroat cribbage with jerr bear.
and now, to the sound of water gurgling around cricket's hull, i will go outside and gaze at the lights on the shore, and the lack of lights on the big water of the bay, and the twinkling lights of the heavens and breath some thankful breaths.
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