Stuff #4
June 14, 2013
It turns out that the decision to stay in port yesterday was a good one. The sail to Atlantic City, our next port of call, will be about six hours or so. That being the case, even if we left at first light, we would have experienced a major knarley squall line. We would have been able to deal with it but why rush it? We are still in Cape May and it is still raining. The temperature is in the 50s. It does look good for departure tomorrow. Since this is all new to us and we may never stop in the same place again, we are taking our time to snoop around each place. For instance, we are stopping for two nights in Atlantic City prior to our sail into the NYC area. Bear has never been in Atlantic City and I only made a brief stop many years ago on business, sort of. We will take the time to see the Board Walk. It is sort of nice that the marina is as State Park Marina but it is connected to the Gold Nugget Casino. It will be the second most expensive stop next to the Galleon Marina in Key West. We are told that marinas further up the way are even more expensive so we will definitely be anchoring more. Actually, we prefer that to being in a slip.
Scurv and I took our rabbit walk in the rain at first light. The rabbit was way smarter than we and was not out and about. As we passed the office, I noticed the older marina cat perched on a high shelf outside the office. Scurv never saw him but he had that look of really wanting Scurv to “make my day”. All passed without incident but I was tempted to call Scurv’s attention to the perched carnivore until I noticed he was missing part of an ear and was scarfaced.

The object in the picture is a wreck of a pre WWI experimental ship made of concrete. SS Atlantis. It was never operational but was made into a ferry dock until a hurricane sunk it.