Salem
Moorglade's Voyage
Ted Wilson
Mon 6 Aug 2012 15:46
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Our Position is 42:31.151N
70:52.359W
Kirsty and I spent Monday looking round Salem. It
is an interesting place, it had a long history as a major port, was the
home of famous 19th century American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and of
course held those witch trials. Kirsty and I spent an hour or so in the town
museum which explains all of them well with displays and artefacts.
However there is little commercial value in old ships records, and a no longer
read author, so Salem is witch central. The town is full of witch related
memorabilia, visit mementos costume and mask shops. Do people really buy all
that tat. Witch themed bars and restaurants predominate with witches on the
street enticing you in. Having said that it is a pleasant little tourist trap
and we had a nice day walking round. We chose a place for lunch that was away
from the main drag which made no reference to witchcraft but did have
small tv screens showing the Olympics at each table so we lingered a while
over our salad.
After a cup of tea and a shower back on board we
took the dinghy ashore to be collected by Paul and Dinny from Carry On which is
berthed on the quay side in Salem. I met Paul and Dinny at River Dunes marina in
North Carolina while I was waiting for Another Adventure to catch me up and they
were waiting for a new injector pump for one of their engines. I was looking
forward to meeting up again.
They took us to an Indian restaurant for dinner.
The food was excellent and the menu just the same as back in the UK and
accompanied with Kingfisher lager. There seems to be a little irony in an
Indian meal making you feel very much at home. We skipped desert as Dinny
had ice-cream for us back on Carry On, very tasty it was too. We relaxed in
there lovely saloon eating ice-cream and chatting until it was time to go back
to Moorglade and to bed. Fortunately we had come ashore in the dinghy as by the
time we returned the launch had stopped running.
 Replica trading ship
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