Wednesday, May 31 - Delaware City
Danny cooked
biscuits for breakfast! Canned biscuits, but they were still very good
and I was impressed.
The lady at the
marina office mentioned last night that they have a golf cart and would give us
a ride to town, so we called and our new friend Jack came to pick us up.
Town was only a few blocks away, but Danny's leg has been bothering him since the
boat tie-up incident in Oriental and we didn't want to push it.
Delaware City was
the original eastern terminus of the C & D Canal, which opened in 1829.
The "new" terminus is now two miles down river.
Yesterday we saw no large ships on the canal, today three exited the canal as
we watched.
Fort Delaware, just
offshore on Pea Patch Island, was the North's Andersonville. Over 32,000
Confederate prisoners of war were housed there. The ferry to Pea Patch
Island runs only on week-ends, so we didn't get to tour the Fort.
We had a great
lunch at Lewinsky's Bar, and yes, there was a picture of Bill Clinton on
display.
This is a really
small town, and we enjoyed visiting the market, the park and walking down the
Main Street. There are many very old houses, too, but without the bikes,
we didn't go looking for them.
Back on the boat,
Danny took a nap and I used my iPad to catch up on mail and Facebook. I
MISS MY PHONE!
Deb and Gil pulled
in mid-afternoon, along with "C-Scape." We visited on our boat
and Danny showed off his zipper pulls, then we went to the "weather
meeting." This time, there was Captain Morgan and Diet Coke waiting for me. As we were leaving, the captain of "Insandity"
invited us to go down to his boat and see and sign the infamous barrels of
Jefferson bourbon that are making a commemorative trip from Louisville, KY to
New York City on Looper boats. Of course I went! He had been given
bottles in addition to the kegs so we passed around a glass of each variety.
They also had a Manhattan mix, but it wasn't as good as the straight
stuff. "Ocean" was my favorite.
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