Day 32: Hooked on birding?

No, not really hooked; but we did go to the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge east of Dover.

We have become, perhaps, a little more appreciative of bird watching during our stay here in what must be one of the best bird-watching areas in the country.

Bombay Hook is basically a huge wetland, much of it salt marshes, and it is managed to provide habitat for the hundreds of thousands of birds that migrate up and down the east coast every year.

We saw a bald eagle, numerous herons, the ever-present red-wing black bird and – our personal favorite – the semipalmated sandpiper (we just like the name).

On the way home we stopped off at the Fordham Brewery in Dover and got a personal tour from Jim, one of the owners. And I do mean personal, opening boxes to smell various hops, looking inside the freshly-cleaned kettles, etc.

The interesting thing about Fordham is that it started as the Ram’s Head brewpub in Annapolis, a favorite hangout for many Johnnies. Jim our tour guide still lives in Annapolis.

It seems like a very nice, efficient operation and the beer was quite tasty. 

The photo below is "Hop2D2" the device they have fabricated from available materials to add hops flavor to the beer.

A few weeks ago we drove past an auto repair shop and Betsy noted the oddity that there was a funnel cake stand in the parking lot.

The stand was closed and it was one of those portable types that can be pulled on a trailer so I opined that it was probably just parked there. Surely they were not selling funnel cakes at this location.

Guess I was wrong.

This was our last full day in Lewes and it rained off and on and then really poured after we got home. It was the most rain we have had since we’ve been here.

This weekend we are going to New York City to visit an old high school friend and go to the Yankees game on Sunday. We will come back to Lewes on Sunday to pick up the bicycles and other stuff we don’t want to leave in the truck parked on the street. We will depart Monday for home; via baseball games in Cleveland and Detroit. We should be home by Memorial Day.

Because we will be on the road my postings from here on out may be sporadic.