This was our maritime day. We drove south to Solomon's Island, the very tip of Calvert County, where the Patuxent River meets the Chesapeake Bay and where there is a very interesting Marine Museum. Spent an hour or so in the museum learning all about the wildlife and marine life and history of the area and how the people lived here thru the years. During the War of 1812 the British were all over this peninsula burning towns and plantations as they made their way to Washington DC to burn it.

We went up in a cool six-sided lighthouse on the dock there and then took an hour-long trip on an old boat - a "bugeye." Came back by way of a Starbuck's, and then walked the beach here at the campground looking for shark's teeth and sea glass. A very nice day! We've just about had this campground to ourselves this week but now it is filling up fast on such a nice weekend. : (  Tomorrow we are driving up to Baltimore.

The Drum Point Lighthouse. The six-sided shape makes for some tiny, odd-shaped rooms inside! We climbed up some very narrow twisting stairs to the very top.
 
 

The Wm. B. Tennison, the boat we took a sail around the Bay on. It started out over 100 years ago as a sailing oyster dredging boat, then it became an oyster "buy boat" - would go out to where they were catching oysters and buy the catch on the spot so the other boats wouldn't have to come back ashore to unload. It is motorized now - too bad! It was a beautiful sunny, breezy day for a "sail" anyway.

We saw this pier on our boat ride and had to laugh at how each piling was occupied by a bird of some kind.

We saw this from our boat, and then went back to eat lunch there - outside at the very end of Solomon's Pier (at the far left) It was once an amusement area with a dance hall, movies, water slide, etc. but is now just a restaurant and tiny gift shop. Gary had a seafood Monte Cristo sandwich and I went for crab cakes again.