SW Waterfront and East Potomac Park

We hadn’t been to East Potomac park since we moved to northern Virginia almost two years ago. So we took a ride for a morning walk. The first encounter is seeing the massive building and construction that has occurred at the SW Waterfront. We used to buy blue crabs and crab meat at Captain White’s when our family lived down the street from us on Capitol Hill. As we drove along the road everything looked really run down. All the sidewalks along the water were closed off. They looked quite damaged and ugly. All the garbage containers were overloaded and the crows were attacking each of them. We stopped for a bit and saw a couple of ducks. Then as we headed over to the other side there were a few fisherman sitting and waiting for the big catch. The airport was visible as usual. One of the dinner boats that probably hasn’t seen much action over the last year was sailing by. None of the cherry trees were even near blooming. We thought we might catch them early, but that wasn’t going to happen. This whole area will be blocked off from visitors when the trees are in bloom due to social distancing concerns. I can’t say we were very impressed by what we saw. So we probably won’t be visiting again any time soon.