Happy Birthday Shawn from Cape May NJ 38◦57'.016 N 074◦54'.642 W

Happy Birthday Shawn from Cape May NJ 38◦57'.016 N   074◦54'.642 W

We're in Cape May New Jersey and our trip down the Delaware was very uneventful. The current and tide gave us a slight push for most of the way and we made it here in good time, Somewhere just before 7pm. Most Marinas close at 5 pm so we just anchored off the Coast Guard station last night. We were so close, we could have reached out and touched the Coast guard cutter. This particular station is where they train all the enlisted Coast Guard newbies and we were awoken by their early morning drills today. Very army like in terms of training. 

We could here this chorus of "sir yes sir". 

Sunset over Cape May Marina 

Today we made our way to Miss Chris' marina to get some provisions and wait out the weather. Our next crossing is three miles out on the Atlantic Ocean, next stop Atlantic city, and we need favorable winds to make it there unscathed. We arrived at the Marina around 10am and settled in, then after lunch we went for a ½ mile walk to the grocery store. Once again that is US miles! Which means it was more like 1.5 miles, but the exercise was good. We needed quite a few things today so we opted to walk and grab a cab back vs riding our bikes. Seems simple enough right? Wrong! We got out with our cart heaping and called 3 cab companies, nobody could come get us. So we called the marina and asked if they could come pick us up. "Would love to" says Bob, "but I am on a charter right now. I'll be back in 1hr." Shoot, what now. I am not too shy, so I noticed a nice man just getting into his car. He seemed familiar, I think I saw him this morning. So I explained out plight and asked if he would be so kind as to bring us to the Marina. "Sure" he said, "it would be my pleasure" As we get in his SUV, he tells us he actually works for the competing marina right across the street. That's where I saw him! Jim and I had gone for a little walk over there before lunch! He then proceeds to bring us on a tour of Cape May. Just a quick tour he says, so I can orient you to the town, where the beaches are and some main attractions. His name was Mark and he will forever be ingrained in our memories. He spoke highly of our Marina Manager, despite being the competition. He told us great stories about Cape May and very obviously loves his town.  Mark works for South Jersey Marina and tonight I will post a comment on Active Captain regarding the best Marina I never went too!

Cute light house along the way

So despite having had a tour of Cape May and it's many attractions, I unfortunately did not have a camera with me, so no picks of the great sights, one of which was the summer time White house! Apparently 5 successive presidents came here to spend their summers,  staff and all!

We had planned on staying here a couple of days, however the weather for tomorrow calls for favorable winds for our next leg and it's the only day this week that it will be favorable,  so we are off at the crack of dawn- Coffee pot set to start at 5:45am. We are not too devastated, since our current slip had us sitting on the bottom again. It's not the first time we were subjected to this situation, however it is the first time that our bow is on the bottom of the waterway, while our stern is still floating. 

The dark blue line is the water line -the light blue is usually under water

This particular position makes it really difficult to open the fridge door, because the boat was tilted so far down at low tide, that stuff in the fridge was actually sliding off forward off the shelf!

Nighty night all.