Monday, October 10th, mouth of Back Creek off the Sassafras River, Chesapeake Bay

  Our plan was to go to Chesapeake City in the C&D Canal.  We started out against the incoming tide at 7am, which is what we wanted because that meant the tide was still rising in the Bay and we could ride the current up the Bay.  Which we did and through the C&D Canal, opting to keep going until here.  Once in the Chesapeake there was so much flotsam—sometimes large logs and sometimes a floating mass with sticks and grass—we had to keep vigilant.  It must have been the remains of the damage from Hurricane Irene.

  We turned in the Sassafras River and arrived at this anchorage with 5 boats anchoring here for the night.  We put in the dinghy and motored up Back Creek and saw other boats moored and a beautiful plantation, then we stopped at Blue Planet for happy hour and came back to a delicious curry with rice I made in the pressure cooker.  Another beautiful night even with the cacophony of the geese taking off in streams, sounding like they were giving support to each group as they took off