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| Enjoying Foxy's |
How do you describe a quaint town riddled with historic homes and nothing but shopping and eating and drinking and an awesome maritime museum? The way I describe this is perfect! This town reminds me so much of where we started our trip back in Door County, WI. The town caters to tourists, with everything from housewares to Sperry Topsiders. It is a boating community with the small town feel. And it is very cute, boasting great shopping, eating and boating...all with-in walking distance from our marina.
When we came into dock at St. Michaels Marina, our slip assignment happened to be in the same basin as a 35ft Sabre. Mind you the basin we are sharing is 28 feet wide total, we are 14 feet wide and the other boat is 12.8 feet! Doesn't leave much room! Of course as soon as Ben was making the move to stern-in (back in), the wind started gusting. I had fenders out all around, the dock hand knew what he was doing and most of all, my captain is more than capable of landing our girl in tight spots. This just happened to also be right in front of a bunch of people dining/drinking at Foxy's (this is the U.S version of Foxy's in Jost Van Dyke in the BVI). We always say you are either the show or the audience when docking...We were the show and in a good way!! Ben got us in no problems. And not without compliments from the dock hand! So, we stepped off our boat and literally stepped into Foxy's!
We spent two nights in St. Michaels. We shopped, caught the farmers market, ate more than our share of ice cream, played tourist at the maritime museum and soaked up the sun poolside.
We will for sure spend time here again!
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| If you look close we are the second boat from the left about 1:00, tight squeeze! Foxy's is located right behind our boats, along with two other restaurants on the property. We loved it here, some people complain of the noise from the bar...we just joined in on the noise! |
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| This rope is from 1813, used to tow U.S warships that were hit by Royal Navy fire during the British invasion of St. Michaels. |
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| The main drag, lots to see! |
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Of course Ben spotted this!
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| We got lucky and ran into a bunch of our fellow Loopers. We shared our winter in Marathon with most of them and it was wonderful to catch back up, even if briefly. |
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| Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Boat shop...it is an active shop, with builds of historic local boats. |
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| This is the Hooper Strait Lighthouse which used to be located on Tangier sound. It is one of only four screw-pile lighthouses in existence. Located at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum for tourist to walk through, it is furnished and provides awesome views of the town. |
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| At the top of the Hooper Strait Lighthouse. |
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| Working hard in my white boots oystering at the museum! |
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