Wednesday - June 8, 2011

Brenda decided we should stay another day at Solomans. She wanted to see the museum so off we went before it got too hot. Temperatures were estimated to get to around 100 today. The museum was one of those nuggets you sometimes find in these little places. It had a complete history of the area going back to prehistoric times since there are cliffs along the Chesapeake where many fossils and skeletons have been excavated. Their interactive history program was extremely good explaining each epoch in the history of the earth. The museum then illustrated the various life in the Bay and the Bay's impact on those living here from the Patuxent Indians to the arrival of the Europeans to the present day. Illustrations of fishing boats and industry that flourished and still flourishes in the Bay and the Patuxent River. All in all an excellent museum, well worth the 3 hours we spent there.

When we came back to the boat these two ducks obviously found it too hot out on the water as they were resting in the shade beside the path to the marina. They didn't move when we came by.