We trailered River Dancer to Port Mahon, not far from Dover, Delaware. Port Mahon, as the name suggests, used to be a working port. A fish factory sat along the shore of the Delaware Bay near the mouth of the Mahon River. There also used to be a lighthouse because of the "Joe Flogger" shoals in the bay right off the shore. It used to be a busy place with oyster shucking and fish cleaning shacks up and down the shoreline.
We put in without much trouble other than that River Dancer floated over top of the domed light on the trailer pole on the port side and cracked it. I watched helplessly as two plastic pieces making up the dome light cover cracked and dropped into the water. It's always something.
We went up the Mahon River and saw marsh, marsh and marsh. Not that I'm hating on marshes. I love how they clean the water and all the wildlife that they support. I marvel at how much is there that we can't even see as we float by.
When we got as far as we dared go, as the Mahon River narrowed and got more shallow we came about and went back out to the bay, then north to the mouth of the Leipsic River. We skipped the Simon River which sits between the Mahon and Leipsic until on our way back. The bay was pretty quiet and smooth. It was almost high tide when we went out.
Once in Leipsic we motored by the docked boats and Sambo's, the only restaurant/bar in town. And of course, you'd be crazy to have a place on the water in a small town like this and not be a crab shack too. Sambo's is named for Samuel "Sambo" Burrows. It is a hole-in-the wall but great neighborhood seasonal pub. I wish it was open all winter. I think it would be fun to drop in in the morning for coffee and breakfast and back in the evening for a drink and sandwich. Even though Leipsic is kind of out in the middle of the marshland and bordering the Bombay National Wildlife Refuge, people find it. Sambo's has a map of the world with pushpins stuck in it to mark home ports of clientele from over the years.
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