Canadians take the Capital by storm! Again!
When we arrived in Washington, we'd just finished three long days on the water working our way down the Chesapeake and up the Potomac. Compared to our recent adventures this passage was uneventful. We fell ten or so miles short of the Potomac the first day so we dropped the hook in a little bay for the night just down river from the Solomon Islands. According to the waterway guide we're using, there should have been fighter jets flying in and out of the nearby air force base, but all we caught a glimpse of was a heavy transport coming in just before dusk. I wanted to cover as much ground as possible the next day, so I left Henry to his own accord and hit the sack early. It was another bright sunny day that greeted me that morning, I threw the kettle on, changed out of my pajamas, pulled the hook and got underway by around seven. It took us two hours to get to the Potomac, so the tide was with us when we arrived....