After a beautiful day on the water yesterday, we are anchored in the north end of Back Creek at Solomons, MD. Not far from the Holiday Inn dinghy dock. Our daughter Becky made the trip with us. How lucky we are.

There was lots of nice scenery along the way which we all enjoyed. Becky works a lot with the Navy at the Pax River base and she was pointing out land marks to us as we neared the Patuxent while oohing and aahing as various aircraft flew over. It was my first time to see the new F35.

Cruising friends told us of the great public pump out dock at Solomons and they were right. The little tourist map of its location is inaccurate and we took a while finding it. Once there, no problem.

Speaking of problems, the dinghy motor now refuses to run. I bought it a new fuel hose, the most common problem we encounter, gave it new gas in case the old gas was bad, and tried all the easy stuff. I now feel pretty sure the carburetor needs a good cleaning and I am not prepared to tackle that with what I have aboard. We will row to and from the dinghy dock for a couple of days and try to find someone to do it Monday.

We are just happy it didn’t crap out while the kids were using it for dinghy rides in Combs Creek.

We missed the joint FHYC, BSC Oympics today. We just can’t be in two places at one time. I’m sure everyone had a great time and wish we could have been there.