Day 207 - May 17, 2013: St. Michaels, Oxford, and the anchorage at Dun Cove

This morning I told Anne that after the marathon 3 1/2 hours we spent yesterday, I was "museum-ed out" and was hereby on strike until further notice. While I love history, and while every town has a very well done museum, the ones here along the Bay have quite a bit of repetition, and I'm loosing my enthusiasm. Odds are I'll bounce back soon.

We went back into St. Michaels this morning and rode our bikes to see more of the downtown and the Inn at Perry Cabin, which was selected as one of the top 500 best hotels by Travel + Leisure. Then we did some gift shopping before taking the dinghy back to Great Laker.

We turned back south through the winding narrows of San Domingo Creek, down Broad Creek into the Choptank River, and north up the Tred Avon River to Oxford. This small town is one of the oldest in Maryland (1683) and was one of the two original ports of entry. It enjoyed the wealth of international shipping, nearby tobacco plantations and of course fishing, claming and oystering. Today, it is a near picture perfect vacation and boating destination. Surrounded by river views, it has quiet streets lined with dense trees and traditional New England-style homes faced with picket fences. Our bikes helped make touring the town fun and easy.

Oxford beach view of the Tred Avon

Quiet streets lined with trees

Who could resist a porch, a picket fence and a view?

Great Laker anchored in Town Creek

Some of the many sailing vessels here in Oxford

While we only stayed in Oxford about 4 hours, we really liked it and would come back again and stay longer. However, our goal was to move on to an anchorage nearer the bay to give us a head start in getting to Annapolis in the morning. There is nothing better than cruising on glass, and when we turned into the Choptank River it was just that. Our anchorage was in Dun Cove on Harris Creek.

Incredibly flat water on Choptank River

Grilling a big juicy steak for dinner

A burnt orange Maryland sunset