We left home late so we could stop at Eastport for the Thursday concert at the Annapolis Maritime Museum. It was a special tribute to Tom Wisner who passed away earlier this year. Tom was a great song writer, environmentalist and lover of the Chesapeake Bay and all of its waters. We got to Eastport and ate at the Davis Pub on 4th St. It is one of our favorite stops in Eastport. Good beer, good food, and we sit outdoors and watch the boats go by.
Got to the concert just as it began and really enjoyed Tom’s songs being sung again. Hope they will be sung for a long time. He did some great stuff. Met Mary Ellen, one of our fellow volunteers at Flag Pond and Cypress Swamp, there and had a nice chat at intermission. Concert had to stop at 8:30 due to some weird rules. The bars can run their jukeboxes til 0145 but the live music at the museum has to stop early. Got on the road north and traffic across the Bay Bridge was light. Filled up with gas on the Jersey Turnpike around 10 PM and decided since traffic was light, to try the George Washington Bridge and stay on 95. Big mistake. Got to the bridge around midnight and made it across just fine, but then we ran into the night construction. I thought at one time we were going to merge down to NO lanes. We finally got through along with all of the 18 wheelers and stopped in CT at a park and ride lot around 0230. It was peaceful enough until the commuters started arriving early. I got up and headed to the Burger King across the street for coffee and we hit the road around 8.
Got to Fourth Cliff RV Park around noon and got a great site facing the North River beside one of the few other occupied sites. When they came back from town we were napping. Got up and discovered it was another Roadtrek 190. They are from Key West and he was a Navy Corpsman with the 4th Marine Division in Viet Nam. We compared RT stories and they travel a lot of the same places we do. It is nice to meet new people and get to talk to them. Had a nice sunset and the view from our site is perfect to watch sunsets.
Fourth Cliff is uniquely situated on a spit of land located between the Atlantic Ocean just north of Cape Cod Bay and the New Inlet of the North and South Rivers. There is the opportunity for real ocean activities: beachcombing, surf fishing, swimming and such. But on the freshwater side there is also a lot of activity. Lots of power boats use the inlet, there are gravelly flats that provide habitat to marine life, shallow swim beaches, more fishing opportunities. We were able to go out at low tide and harvest 2 small batches of mussels which really made a great appetizer while we were camped there. It is fun to watch the sand dollars and crabs in the clear water.
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