October 17

We moved from Chesapeake City to Still Pond on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake today. The anchorage was a quiet one, but just a pull-off from the Bay. Still Pond proper is through a narrow and shallow channel which because we were to have light winds that night we preferred not to enter. We did take the dinghy through though and discovered that there were mooring balls in Still Pond and that it extended several miles to the East. With the Washers aboard, we explored all the way to the eastern extent of the waters. On the way back, Pat spotted a deer on the shore. We dinghied quietly toward it with our backs to the sun and the wind quartering our scent away from the deer. It was a truly magnificent buck with a trophy rack. As we got very close to it, it appeared to either be ill or wounded or very old. We could not definitely determine the cause of its somewhat peculiar behavior. Our return to the anchorage found us with many new neighbors. Most of the boats were Canadian, but one was a boat we had seen before that was American. As the young couple rowed past us to visit some friends, I engaged them in conversation. They are from the same place that one of our friends, Gerry Senecal, has his sailboat and they said they knew him. Another amazing coincidence of the kind that one encounters on these trips.