Quicksilver Sail Tales: Little Bay-Southern Chesapeake

The blue dot is where we usually are, Jackson Creek. The point where you see the route 33 sign is Stingray Point and if you look north of the Rappahannick River you'll see Little Bay.

It's Friday, June 20, 2014 and we are on sailing on a beam reach in 15 knots our way back to Jackson Creek in Deltaville. I just made Jon and I peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. (Did you ever notice how great they taste sometimes ? Something like ice cold milk, even chocolate milk would go great with it). Anyway, I needed a little comfort food as the waves are about two feet and my stomach requested it. We just spent four days trying to beat the 95 degree heat in a great anchorage, Little Bay. Little Bay is about 15 miles north of Deltaville and brags of its great holding for anchors and undeveloped beaches. We discovered a nice little breeze blowing and as long as we got in the water every hour or so we were fine. One of the days we just got our cushions and sat on top of them in the water. We had our drinks and would have eaten dinner there too if we could have figured out. Every night we ate cold cantaloupe and cold macaroni salad with our dinner. Life is good when you have cold side dishes in the heat. There were a lot of stingrays that jumped and splashed around to let you know they were there. I hadn't realized the significance of the name Stingray Point off of Deltaville and the Antipoison Creek in Little Bay. Apparently, John Smith had been stung by a stingray in Deltaville waters and thought he was dying. Indians came to his rescue and brought him to what is now known as Antipoison Creek where they treated his wounds and he got better. There you have it. We can both vouch for the abundance of stingrays..I even posted one we were tracking in our dingy on Facebook.

We hope to check out some more of this souther Chesapeake, even if it's just day sailing. We'll keep you posted.

Sailing into Little Bay

First you have to navigate around this abandoned fish trap.

We dingyed over to get closer look at the beaches.

Some structure that someone threw together. On active captain they call it a tiki bar...??

Just relaxing

We found about a dozen swans in a cove when we were exploring.

One morning all twelve of them came in flying low and honking..at first I thought I was hearing strange geese... It was just beautiful..I'd never seen swans fly like that.