Lankford Bay Marina to Redout Creek

Departed Lankford Bay Marina at noon bound for Ridout Creek on Whitehall Creek which is just north of Annapolis.  The Chester River and the Bay were nearly windless and calm the entire day.  We motored for almost 5 hours to cover the 27 nm to our anchorage in Ridout Creek

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Whitehall Bay and its tributaries are lined with modern homes and private docks.  Shoaling is extensive and the creek channels are narrow in several places.  So, you have to simultaneously keep an eye on the chart, the depth sounder and the water scanning for channel markers so as not to run aground.  Fortunately, the chart and markers matched pretty well and we made it to our anchorage without any difficulty. 

Carla made a fine meal of home-made tomato soup, grilled cheese sandwiches and watermelon for desert.  We spent the remainder of the evening reading.  Dwayne has finished James A. Mitchener’s Chesapeake and has now started Skipjack: The Story of America’s Last Sailing Oystermen by Christopher White.  Carla is reading both of these books as well.  Our being here and having visited many of the locations mentioned in these books and having spent time with people from the Eastern Shore has enhanced our understanding and appreciation for the issues raised in these books.  It amazes us at how rapidly change is occurring on the Bay and Eastern Shore.