Before leaving in the morning, we took advantage of the marina’s laundry facility for a quick load to wash while we took a 30 minute minute run through Solomon’s Island. After French toast for breakfast in the cockpit, we retrieved the laundry and set off under sail for the Choptank River to Cambridge , MD on the eastern shore. The wind died around 1 pm so we had to motor the rest of the way, finally dropping anchor around 6 pm. We tried to get onto the free dock inside the harbor but it was full so we anchored right off the municipal marina leaving a short dinghy ride to town. Harry had found that Cambridge was host to one of the best crab restaurants so we set off to find the place - Ocean Odyssey. We took the dinghy up the creek, tied up to a sketchy pier, then walked about 10 minutes to the restaurant on Route 50. Ocean Odyssey had been in business for many years and was a no frills kind of place, very popular with locals. Harry ordered four jumbo crabs and got a quick lesson in how to extract the meat using a sharp knife and a mallet. It was a lot of work, taking Harry much more time to get through three crabs than it took Sarah to eat her crab cake, but according to Harry, they were worth the effort. Dairy Queen was right next door and we couldn’t resist an ice cream for our walk back.
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| Heading into Cambridge in search of steamed crabs |
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| Exhausting work but worth it |
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