Re: Washington D.C. by boat
You did all that in one day?
Should have been two or three.
I was born in Washington DC and lived the first 40 years of my live within five miles of the DC/MD line. Next 20 years about 30 miles from the line. Then I moved to where I don't have to shovel snow.
Strange as it may seem, I never visited the monuments as an adult. I remember my parents taking us to the monuments and museums when we were children. Long enough ago that you just got in line and went into the Washington Monument. We even walked up and down the stairs (youth!).
Two things to add to the thread:
1. Gravelly point boat ramp is also a park where non-boaters bring their children to run around and watch the airplanes. The children will run behind you as you are backing your trailer (if you even found a place to park it). Also, unless it's changed, you can only enter the park from the northbound side of the parkway so if you're heading there from the north, you have to tow your boat and trailer through the airport and back out. There's some very shallow water between the ramp and the channel.
2. Unless they?ve changed it (and I doubt it), Washington DC requires that you have a valid boater education completion certificate in your possession while boating in DC waters (above the Wilson Bridge, even if you're not required to have one in your home state. No reciprocity here. Once I became aware of that, I didn't go back, I just boated in MD.
Anyway, glad you had a good trip and nice photos. I think I walked that marina once.
