Beth and I started our day in the town of Milford, Delaware, where we were enjoying the beach from afar. The previous day we had visited the Delaware state highpoint at Ebright Azimuth, as well as a day exploring the vast state of Delaware including Rehoboth Beach. This morning we drove south along highway 1 into Ocean City, Maryland, where we spent a couple hours walking the boardwalk and taking in the sights. This was the bulk of our day; we didn't get rolling out of Ocean City until about 3 p.m. toward our hotel in Pocomoke City. Along the way were two county highpoints I wanted to explore.

We first made an exploratory trip to the Delaware-Maryland state line to check out the Sussex County (Delaware) highpoints, but they were too far back on private land to consider a visit at this time. We sort of expected that. Just down the road back into Maryland were the highpoint rises for Wicomico County. There are two areas about 3 miles apart. We came from the north along the Parsonsburg-Melson Road and parked near its intersection with Dagsboro Road. The rise (according to the map) was just a very short ways into the brush and forest to the northeast. I did my best to gauge this and entered into the forest but nothing was obvious in the thick vegetation. It's possible this rise has been removed (bulldozed?). A farm is on the actual corner. This one might be better explored coming in winter, I bet, when vegetation isn't so thick.

The second area is in the town of Parsonsburg itself, in the cemetery adjacent to a church at the corner of Forest Grove Road and highway MD-346. We parked in the small lot and explored the cemetery. The highpoint was easily found, but we had a better time just looking at some of the dates, many of whom were interred over 100 years ago. A significant number of those buried here were from the Parsons family, which probably has something to do with the family that founded the town. It's a neat, trim, well kept cemetery and we enjoyed our visit. From here we drove a few miles south and visited the Somerset County highpoints.