Days 200 – 228: Hanging Out

Piney Narrows Yacht Club, Kent Island, MD

August 3 -31, 2022

We have spent the month of August in a marina. John has done a lot of boat maintenance (including making new deck hatch covers, washing and sealing the teak as well as changing the oil and filters and repainting the chain markers) and I have done some IB work, both virtually and in-person. The marina has been a great homebase that allows us to focus on tasks rather than travel.

Early August was marked with regular afternoon storms. John and I like watching the clouds come in. The winds pick up and Lailia moves just a tiny bit in this very protected marina.

We’ve explored a lot around the marina – the Cross-Island Trail goes right by us. We’ve walked the Ferry Point Trail a few times, but it gets really buggy. The bugs were almost worth it the evening I saw a fox there.

The view of sunrise is blocked by the covered docks near us but we do get some nice sunsets.

A short walk across the Kent Island Bridge takes us to a bunch of restaurants, including a really nice coffee shop, Dessert First, that serves breakfast as well as baked things.

Our friends Casey and Andy, as well as their dog Frank, have also shared meals with us. There’s even a pretty great taco counter in a gas station that’s about a mile away (right off the Cross Island Trail).

We have decided to stay in this marina for another month. As the weather cools down a little, we’ll take some day trips out in the bay. It’s also nice to have an address where we can receive Amazon packages.

Lailia will need to have an insurance inspection which includes being hauled out of the water so her hull can be viewed so we’ll be heading across the bay to get that done soon.