Plan B – Day Two

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Nov 22, 2008
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Endeavour 32 Portland, Maine
I woke late and sailed off the anchor and then down the Sassafras and up to Turkey Point on as nice a spring day as you could ask for. The wind went light about a mile from the lighthouse on its high bluff which feels like it marks the entrance to the bay for vessels coming south through the canal. I started the engine and headed up towards Charlestown at the head of the North East River intending to anchor there for the night.

The sand cliffs of Elk Neck are amazing and were lit perfectly by the late morning sun making it a beautiful run even under power. A Coast Guard security notice about fireworks on the Susquehanna River came over the air as I was negotiating the narrow and shallow channels that lead to Charlestown. This made me think about anchoring back in the lee of the cliffs, a decision which was finalized by finding Charlestown full of moorings and with a sailboat race filling most of it. I turned around and anchored under the highest bluff of the White Cliffs.

I then rowed ashore for my first walk of the year in upland hardwood forest with green leaves! The scale of these cliffs is not the kind of thing one usually associates with Chesapeake Bay cruising. Seldom in Maine have I looked down on Strider close at hand from such a height.



Over about half of the bay between the narrow channel just beyond the buoy and Harve de Grace on the far shore, you could stand with your head above water.



Can you spot the people standing on the overlook in this picture?



Here’s a detail if you need help:



I returned for a nap, a lazy couple hours of reading, dinner, and am now waiting for the fireworks.
 

elle

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Sep 13, 1996
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Rhodes 22 Northern Neck of Virginia
The sand cliffs of Elk Neck are amazing and were lit perfectly by the late morning sun.

I then rowed ashore for my first walk of the year in upland hardwood forest with green leaves!

I returned for a nap, a lazy couple hours of reading, dinner, and am now waiting for the fireworks.
Congratulations, Roger. You are now on your way to discovering the true meaning of life. Thank your stars that you are not 'too soon old, too late smart.'

elle
 
Dec 27, 2011
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Oday 272 Pensacola
What about the other couple to left/bottom of pic? Follow horizontal line in cliff on right side to left side, just under the trees and beside another white portion of a cliff...
 
Dec 27, 2011
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Oday 272 Pensacola
Guess it's an optical illusion. But looks like you can see 2 legs, head, hands out in front of chest as if holding a basketball... At bottom of trees and next to white part of cliff on lower left side.

Sorry - eyes must be getting old...

Charles
 
Sep 25, 2008
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Macgregor & Island Packet VENTURE 25 & IP-38 NORTH EAST, MD
Roger, did you happen to see a pair of Macgregor Ventures sailing south as you were heading up the North East River? We were heading down to Worton Creek for the weekend. The sailboat race in the Charlestown area was the North East River Yacht Club's weekly event.
 
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