The town of Bivalve is really just a collection of houses on a road to somewhere else, but it's delightful. For some reason, they have a very nice marina plunked down in a park on the outskirts. In fact, there are a number of very nice riverfront parks all a short distance from the marina. We hunkered down in Bivalve for 3 days to sit out some weather and used the time to explore the surroundings and play tennis.

Leaving Bivalve, our plan was to head back to Solomon's because our real destination was too far to make in one day. The plan changed when the wind filled in and Grace went charging along and brought us to our target an hour and a half earlier than we thought possible.

The target was Slaughter Creek, east of Taylor's Island on the south side of the Little Choptank River.