Sailors playing tourist (on land)

The rain continues.  The stationary front has been sitting on top of us for 6 days now and is expected to continue for another couple of days.  It has rained every day we have been here.  We are almost ready to go.  We need a few more provisions which we will buy tomorrow (Wed).  Thursday we will top off the water tanks, do a last batch of laundry and say goodbye to Spring Cove Marina for a few weeks.  Our car will remain here.  We will eventually come back to get it and move it further south as we move the boat further south.  Yesterday we drove to D.C. and played tourist.  We visited two of the Smithsonian Museums - American History & Natural History. We also walked the mall and gawked at some of the monuments.  We saw the WW II momorial.  It was not built when we last visited DC. It was a cold and wet day.  One of those days when it's not quite rain and not quite heavy fog.  But quite miserable.  The museums were warm...and interesting of course.  Today we went to a park near here that had a walking trail through woods along a small creek (it would be called a run in WV) that ran steeply down hill to a fresh water marsh  that emptied into the Chesapeake Bay.  On each side of the marsh were the Calvert Cliffs  The cliffs are 30+ feet high and mostly a clay/sand mix where fossels of critters from 10+ million years ago are often found as parts of the cliff crumble into the bay from time to time.  We talked to a paleontologist at Calvert Marine Museum across the street from our marina about the history of the bay.   Ten million  years ago it was a sea floor.  He showed us fossils of sharks, dolphins and some rather bizarre fish-like animals that had been excavated from the cliffs.  We found no dinasour bones on our exploritory trip but Diane did find some sharks teeth.  Here first ones in MD.  She will add these to the many shark's teeth and shells that clutter my garage.  The photos I am attaching to this post are of the marsh and cliffs I mention above.  Sorry, no photos of DC; we forgot to bring the camera!