10:00 Left the boat...walked down to the Korean War Memorial to catch a water taxi to Fort McHenry...never done that before...got there waited a while, then got in the water taxi, then he took us to another dock, chg'd to another taxi, that took us to the hub for the big water taxi ride....to Fort McHenry...the water taxi is run like an airport...you have the hub and then the little docks..etc. got thru all that and went into Fort McHenry..Baltimore, MD...If not familiar with the fort, it is where Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner and where in the war of 1812,Fort McHenry defened the newly formed American from the British attack....lot of history there...nice - worth the visit if you come to Baltimore..Many British ships came up the Chesapeake Bay into the Patapsco River headed to Baltimore to take it over, when the people at Fort Mchenry stopped them by firing back at the ships,etc...afte 24 hrs of bombardment, the fort finally raised the U.S. Flag...British were defeated....they showed us a little movie...really done well to explain all this....
Took water taxi back to Fells Point, ate lunch at Shuckers and watched the people (locals and bus. owners) filling sandbags for the upcoming storm....last time a hurricane came here was back in 2003 or 2004 (the kids weren't sure) but on the docks out here are 10-12 poles...the water surge went up 8 ft of these poles...swamped lots of houses, businesses ,etc...we are not sure about it on Sat. Nite or early Sunday, won't be here to watch it....but the locals are concerned...I heard one lady say they were pulling their boat out today...another say that they were buttoning theirs up and heading home to Pennsylvania....another to New Jersey...we have nowhere to go except downtown to a hotel....Ken will worry about his boat, I know he will...me too, but not like he will....we will strip the mainsail, the canvas and dbl/triple tie things down...about all we can do.
After lunch, we took another water taxi to Tide Point, then back to Canton (Korean War Memorial) then walked several blocks back to the marina...
3:15 back on the boat
5:00 woke up from a short nap....Ken said, guess who the Oriole's are playing tonight at Camden Yards....I guessed the "Yankee's - I'm so smart...so we decided to get a cab and ride uptown downtown, wherever it is and go to the game....so we walk out to the main road, flag down a cab...(Sule' from E. Africa...been here 4 yrs) talks pretty good English....picked us up in rush hour traffic....we got his number and after the Yankee's spanking by the Oriole's (12 - 5) we called him and he came and got us and took us back to the marina....we will use him to take us to the Hotel tomorrow....
Got back at 10:00 PM...left the game early as it was hard to watch sitting with all these stinkin Oriole fans all around us....you would be surprised of the yankee fans there....
All in all a great day....pics to follow...
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