Wed Sept 16 Harris Creek to Wye Island

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 A special sunrise today.  We learn later that the haze we are seeing is smoke from wildfires on the US West Coast just arrived in our region.  We have been watching the news of the unfolding disaster unfolding at the opposite coast.




The anchor is up around noon and we head south around Tighlman Island before turning north to head further up the Bay. 

 There is a canal and drawbridge separating Tighlman Island from the rest of Maryland's Eastern Shore.  Brent debates using the canal to shorten the trip, but decides against it opting instead for a relaxing cruise the long way around.  The winds forecast for today never materialize leaving on almost erie flat water on the Chesapeake.  

Along the way we pass prepetually growing Poplar Island.  In an apparently never ending process continuous dredging keeps Baltimore harbor open for heavy cargo ship traffic.  The dredge spoils end up here where heavy construction equipment is always busy mounding up and smoothing out the spoils.  Someday perhaps this will be a delightful park, but for mean while this place is the construction project that never ends.  

Our day ends with the anchor down at Wye Island.  This is a favorite stop that has been high on our priorities for this trip.

In the process of throttling down one of our two engines suddenly stalls and stubbornly refuses to restart.  We get the anchor down with just one engine.  Then Brent digs into what could be the problem.  We have not yet figured it out and this will no doubt be a topic for a post in the coming days.


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