Rogue ICW Day 22

I'm Baaaaaack.  After 1499 miles we docked at Lankford Bay Marina this afternoon. After a pumpout we tied up in the slip that will be home to Rogue.  My wife, and Rousby's wife Cathy were there to greet us and help tie up. Some other friends Tom and Lisa also joined us and we had a small celebration and relaxed on the back deck.  After a short while we packed up and headed for home.

The day started early, we had the anchor up and ghosted out of the anchorage leaving the other boats behind.  We turned north up the bay once again.  We pressed on for forty miles or so, then made a right turn into Eastern Bay. Up Eastern Bay toward Kent Narrows.  Eastern Bay was just loaded with boats of all shapes and sizes, sailboats (motor boats with sails), and power boats all headed out into the Chesapeake Bay, probably back to where they started their journey earlier this weekend.  There is an old drawbridge that you have to pass under to transit Kent Narrows, (narrows is the operative word here) which only opens on the hour and half hour.  We were idling through the south side of the narrows, which is a no wake zone, when we saw the bridge go up.  We were maybe a half mile away at the time and I thought there was no way we could make the opening and we would have to wait a half hour.  But, there were so many boats going through the draw, some going north, some going south that the bridge had to stay open quite a while.  In fact, boats had to pass through the draw one direction at a time because it is so narrow.  The tender was on the radio giving direction to the several boats going in one direction when to go, then the other direction would go.  In the meantime other boats had moved up to the bridge and had to wait for the tender to then give them the go ahead.  This went on for some time, long enough for us to actually make it through.  After making it through the bridge, we wound our way through the narrow on the north side and entered the Chester River.  Around Eastern Neck island , into Lankford Bay then we slid into Davis Creek and home.  A 70 mile day.
We are glad to be here and glad to have completed the journey.  Now Rogue needs  a bath and a polish, but that is for another day soon.

Until then.....