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Fixing dinner Sunday night. The Potomac River was at high tide and a bit rough.
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Greg's Sam Hillbourne watching the cook stove under the setting sun!
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Greg preparing dinner over the Potomac River campsite. Va. on the other side.
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Sunday arrival at the campsite off Riverside Rd.
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Sunday arrival at the campsite off Riverside Rd.
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Sunday arrival at the campsite off Riverside Rd.
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Tents up Sunday just before sunset.
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We could not have been luckier than to have a table, since the heavy rains two days prior had saturated the ground.
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What a sunset! This looking west across the Potomac toward the Va. side.
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Greg's Hillbourne upacked and at rest.
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My Hillbourne catching the last of the light over the Potomac.
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Looking north toward Fort Belviour on the Va. side.
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Red sky at night, sailor's delight! (It worked!)
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Monday morning my bike computer said 28 degrees at 7:41. (I don't bother to reset for Eastern Standard Time.)
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The Potomac in the morning was calm & placid. Low tide with little wind.
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A panorama movie view of the river from our site at breakfast.
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Headed back out to Riverside Rd. (Rt.224) from our stealth site in the morning.
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Rt. 224 is very isolated at the bottom half of the peninsula.
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Icy swamp. This bridge came close to being flooded out from all the rain days before.
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Looking west toward the Potomac River, not far away.
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Checking my weight to see if I qualify.
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Riverside Rd. headed back north on the western side of the peninsula in Charles Co.
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Our second bald eagle sighting of the morning. Well-fed bird! The first three flew right across our camp!
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Our "Historically Natural" route is the orange loop on the left on the So. Maryland / Charles Co. bike route map.
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Down to the Potomac at the bottom of the peninsula.
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Beyond repair.
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Leftovers. Stories to tell, though, I'll bet.
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Along Rt. 425.
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Remnants of an earlier snow - the only snow we saw on the trip.
