We spent two nights in St. Michaels. When we got there the town was alive with noise of sirens, music, and people. We did not go ashore, but we heard the next day there were street parties and food and wine tastings offered and all the shops were open. Of course, when we were ashore (Sunday Oct 23) many places were closed and everything was quiet. We seem to always arrive after the festivities. But we like it quiet, so we don’t really mind. St. Michaels is a little bit like our home town Camden, with a similar array of shops and art galleries, and restaurants, and for the locals, groceries, the post office and places of worship are all right in town as well.
We browsed a couple antique stores, window-shopped the boutiques, and settled down for lunch at at Corah’s, where the menu boasted “craft food.” They also offered a nice selection of hot drinks like spiced rum-apple cider and hot chocolate or coffee augmented by different liquors. We indulged in both the craft food and the drinks to celebrate our 35th anniversary. 
Happy Anniversary!
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| Christ Church, St. Michaels |
It began a steady rain when we got back to the boat. All the others cruisers had departed and we felt free to let out a little more scope to deal with the predicted winds, and we hunkered down for the night.
We almost stayed another night, as the winds hadn’t settled down much, but we decided to raise anchor and see if we couldn’t move on, figuring if it was too rough, we could always turn back. It was a little rough, but not too bad, and as we cruised past one potential anchorage after another, we managed to move out of the Eastern Bay and into the Chesapeake, down and around Tilghman Island. We found a really nice quiet anchorage in the Little Choptank River, in Hudson Creek. The scenery was reminiscent of the Carolinas - a few large plantation-like mansions shuttered for the season, and lowlands dotted with trees that didn’t offer much lee protection. This was probably the darkest night sky we’d have for awhile, but it was overcast and we never saw the stars.
Hudson Creek
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