Spring Cove Marina, Solomons MD

 While I got my beauty rest, David got up early and cleaned off the old numbers on the dinghy.  Then he very perfectly put the new registration numbers on both sides of it.  It looked professional, he did a great job.  I walked around the marina grounds (to try and find the garbage dumpster) and took some nice pics of the place, it’s very pretty.  And then I found the gift shop.  Santa managed to do some Xmas shopping, plus I found another cool crab t-shirt for myself.  The marina has bicycles you can check out, the new ones were quite nice, simple and had big seats for my big seat and no gears or hand breaks. We rode into town to look around, it’s been years since I have been on a bike.  Fortunately, like they say, it does come right back to you.  I was happy we waited till the hottest part of the day, ha.  After almost 4 miles we were so sweaty (it was 95 & 58%) the breeze blowing over us felt quite good.  There was a key lime pie store that we couldn’t pass up.  By the time we got back to the boat the pie was a little tired. I threw it in the fridge and off we went to the pool to cool off a bit.  I ordered a pina colada at the bar, and I must be honest, it sucked horribly, $12 for a shot of rum and some white industrial tasting liquid that reminded my of one of those sugar tolerance tests where you have to drink that obscenely sweet chemical stuff

This is how crabs swim, learn something everyday.

Marina scenery.

1” jellyfish everywhere.

Cool street lights here.

Bad boat name of the week!  It does mean something but I thought it was initials of all of their kids, ha.

More jellyfish.

They’re pretty, but don’t fall in.

Yes, more jellyfish.

And more.

 Marina scenery.

And more.

Turn your sound up, the cicadas are so loud.

This is the real size of those buoys out in the ocean.
Pretty plant I’ve never seen before.

Quaint local Episcopal  church from 1889

Out bike riding.

Overlooking the  marine  science project area.

This tree is all dressed up with crocheted pieces donated from many people.

A really big anchor.

Sailboats out of the water, big, medium and small.

Cool playhouse.


A really really red roof.


, yuck!  David had a Spring Cove Punch, not bad, plenty of rum, we’ll sleep well tonight. Fun day and tomorrow we head to Annapolis.

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