Chesapeake City, MD Schaefer’s Canal House & Marina June 18-19, 2016
It is a really beautiful day as we leave the Chesapeake behind us and enter the C & D canal. Puffy clouds, blue skies, and calm waters except when the pleasure & speed boaters go flying by…What’s up with those cigarette boats? They are just plain annoying and REALLY, REALLY LOUD!!! Horrible!!!
We arrived here in time for a wedding…How fun! They couldn’t have asked for a nicer day! It’s a really pretty restaurant on the canal!
In the mid‑17th century Augustine Herman, a mapmaker and Prague native who had served as an envoy for the Dutch, observed that two great bodies of water, the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay, were separated only by a narrow strip of land. Herman proposed that a waterway be built to connect the two. The canal would reduce, by nearly 300 miles (500 km), the water routes between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Canal construction was started various times but finally resumed in April 1824, and in several years some 2,600 men were digging and hauling dirt from the ditch. Laborers toiled with pick and shovel at the immense construction task, working for an average daily wage of 75 cents. The swampy marshlands along the canal's planned route proved a great impediment to progress as workers continuously battled slides along the soft slopes of the "ditch" being cut. It was 1829 before the C&D Canal Company could, at last, announce the waterway "open for business". The $3.5 million construction cost made it one of the most expensive canal projects of its time. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (C&D Canal) is a 14-mile (23 km)-long, 450-foot-wide and 40-foot -deep ship canal that connects the Delaware River with Chesapeake Bay in the states of Delaware and Maryland in the United States. The C&D Canal is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District. In Delaware, the canal is considered the “divide” between the northern and southern parts of the state. It is also widely considered the beginning of the Delmarva Peninsula, although the fall line onto the Atlantic Coastal Plain lies farther north. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal is a working waterway with over 25,000 vessels a year making the passage. This makes it one of the busiest canals in the world. A large portion of this traffic is commercial, including: large deep draft ships and tugs with tows.
In the mid‑17th century Augustine Herman, a mapmaker and Prague native who had served as an envoy for the Dutch, observed that two great bodies of water, the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay, were separated only by a narrow strip of land. Herman proposed that a waterway be built to connect the two. The canal would reduce, by nearly 300 miles (500 km), the water routes between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Canal construction was started various times but finally resumed in April 1824, and in several years some 2,600 men were digging and hauling dirt from the ditch. Laborers toiled with pick and shovel at the immense construction task, working for an average daily wage of 75 cents. The swampy marshlands along the canal's planned route proved a great impediment to progress as workers continuously battled slides along the soft slopes of the "ditch" being cut. It was 1829 before the C&D Canal Company could, at last, announce the waterway "open for business". The $3.5 million construction cost made it one of the most expensive canal projects of its time. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (C&D Canal) is a 14-mile (23 km)-long, 450-foot-wide and 40-foot -deep ship canal that connects the Delaware River with Chesapeake Bay in the states of Delaware and Maryland in the United States. The C&D Canal is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District. In Delaware, the canal is considered the “divide” between the northern and southern parts of the state. It is also widely considered the beginning of the Delmarva Peninsula, although the fall line onto the Atlantic Coastal Plain lies farther north. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal is a working waterway with over 25,000 vessels a year making the passage. This makes it one of the busiest canals in the world. A large portion of this traffic is commercial, including: large deep draft ships and tugs with tows.
The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal is open all year long, though during the winter, the canal may be occasionally closed or temporarily restricted to low powered vessels and small craft due to icy conditions.
I got in serious trouble with mom and dad when I jumped off the bow of our boat up onto the restaurant’s deck. Thankfully, some nice man who was eating, grabbed hold of my harness until mom could finish tying up the boat and take me for a walk. Just to make it more confusing I wouldn’t do my business for mom, so she finally brought me back on board. When dad took me out later, I peed on the restaurant’s deck when I got up there…OOPS…sorry, old kidneys!
Due to Fourth of July coming before we know it, mom and dad have lined up their marinas through the Fourth. We will be at Half Moon Bay Marina at Croton on the Hudson to celebrate the Fourth. We may have to do a lot of phone calling later, if weather crosses us up, but it’s better to have reservations than not.
Mom and dad had a lovely dinner here especially enjoying the talented musical group, The Bleech Music
Danny Briones - Guitar/Vocals Mark Ham - Guitar/Vocals Chuck Briones - Bass/Vocals Joe Orlowsky - Drums/Vocals Susan Dounce - Cello/Vocals
They cover: The Beatles, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Screaming Trees, The Doors, Stone Temple Pilots, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Soundgarden, Audioslave, Green Day, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Fleetwood Mac, Alice In Chains, CKY, The Cure
At Schaefer's Canal House with Bleech Music behind Mike
Lily and I hanging out on Moondance
A very small lighthouse on our way across the Chesapeake
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| The scenery was almost surreal it was so pretty...It reminded me when my dad use to create a town for his model RR tracks...it was so perfect looking from our view |
The Bayard House that we weren't able to go to...Sorry, Val and Tom, we did remember your suggestion!
Views from Moondance around the canal
Chesapeake City is split by the canal
Schaefer's Canal House and Marina on the C & D Canal
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