MOnday Nov 10

Monday Nov.10

It’s 11:30 am and we are about 15 miles from Chesapeake Bay going in to Deltaville, Virginia. I need to go to the Waterway Guide office, and sign my new contract for the Turks and Caicos [That’s my next assignment!!!] and meet the managing editor.

Then we head down to Norfolk and into the ICW. It was a great decision to do the ocean instead of the C&D canal. It will have taken about 36 hours to get there instead of7 days if we had gone the other way. The night crossing was easy... only one set of fishing boats called us to tell us how to avoid their nets. The stars we out, the moon was full and we could see easily where we were going. This morning at 6:00 a pod of dolphins passed me and later when Rick was at the helm, they showed up for him too!

We were about 3-5 miles off shore in water no deeper than 50 feet. Remember studying the continental shelf in school?  Well that’s what we are running on. The fishing boats have to go miles out to sea to get the deep water fish.

The Delaware shore is nothing but marsh and sand islands. Chincoteague Island is where the wild ponies are, in a nature preserve. At night there is nothing to see on the shore. This morning isn’t much better...shore grass and sand. The water temperature is 14.5 down here and today I was sailing in a t-shirt!

We came into Cape Charles Harbour and got a dock. We are beat and it took longer to get into the Bay because of the outgoing tide. We had showers [YEAH!!!] and went for dinner at a bar on the dock called Shanty. They had half the menu gluten free! I had fish and chips... it was FRESH caught haddock.OMG it was awesome!  And we are exhausted , goodnight,

Dock Neighbour Cape May

Squeezing thru bridge repairs

End of the day Sunday

Monday dawn

Chincoteague Is. -no horses running the beach today

Sleep break

Chesapeake bridge one half

Sunset Monday- Chesapeake Bay

V is for Victory - we made it to ICW