On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:14:26 -0400, HarryKrause wrote:

We had a nice short cruise today from Solomons Island out the Patuxent
River down Chesapeake Bay and up the Potomac River to Piney Point,
Maryland, for a 4th of July Weekend picnic with some labor union
friends, 14 of which rode down and came back with us.

I don't think I have the patience to be a cruise ship captain! We had a
couple of stragglers who arrived at the marina 40 minutes late.

The weather was pretty decent, a bit overcast, but the air was warm, the
water had only a slight chop, and we didn't run into huge crowds everywhere.

Lots of fishermen in the Pax River mouth area, pulling in the croakers
that some here find so hard to find, but we didn't stop to enjoy
catching any ourselves.

A few of my passengers managed to get looped at the picnic, but the trip
back was uneventful and for once I had a willing crew for boatwashing
detail. I wanted to get back early enough in the day so we didn't run
into any of the traffic heading for the local fireworks displays. We
might hit one of those ourselves later. The downtown DC display is
fabulous, but it's a pain in the ass getting downtown and back for a
megacrowd event there.

Hope your holiday is safe.

Very nice story, Harry. Glad to hear the croaker are biting off the Pax River.
They haven't started yet up at Herring Bay (except for one well-known
fisherman), but hopefully they'll be there in another week or so.

Fifteen people on that Parker must have been a little crowded, but glad to hear
everything went well!
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."