Day 15 Deltaville VA

Finally in Va. We are at Doziers Regatta Point very nice marina and price is good 1.25 / ft make sure you let them know your an AGLCA member for the discount. They serve coffee, OJ, and donuts in the morning in the Captains Lounge along with a newspaper. They have a courtesy car , free bikes to use and a list of restaurants with shuttle service. They are owned by Doziers waterway guides and have a store with guides for sale and all the skipper bob booklets too. Very friendly !!!
Tomorrow we will move on to Norfolk VA not sure where we will land for the night we will be researching, we may stay an extra night in Norfolk or here not sure yet. We were thinking it would be nice to do the Dismal Swamp with Liberty and Esperanza. Does everyone think they can get here by Sunday night? Or Norfolk by Monday night? Let us know. Theres a Visitors Center in the Dismal Swamp where we can raft up together for the night and its free.

Day 14 safely tucked in Solomons

Well travel plans changed for the day, we were trying to decide whether to ride out the waves 3ft not really that bad but........when boats set out this morning and then came back in a short while later we decided one more day here was fine. So, I made a nice big breakfast of banana pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage and coffee. Someone told us there was a very nice gourmet market down the street so off we go to investigate that side of town. The excercise will do us good after breakfast.

Day 13 Enjoying Solomon Islands

After we did the necessary things, laundry, showers boat washing etc. We rented bikes and headed into town. Well, I gotta tell ya, its true what they say, you never forget but the body well, I will be feeling it tomorrow. But, It was great fun!
We will be leaving here tomorrow morning and heading to Deltaville Va. this now puts us in the southern Chesapeake Bay. Deltaville was once known as the boat building capitol of the world but now most of the two dozen boat builders are gone and the town makes it living from the boating and the marine industry. Landing here puts us just one short day to the ICW which begins in Norfolk Va.

Day 12 Solomon Islands MD

We are here! A wet and colddddddddddddd journey today, canvas enclosure just got put on the TOP of the we need list. There are 3 other loop boats here that we know of and hope to hook up with them for docktails. More later when I can feel my fingers again! No pictures today but when the sun comes out it looks to be very pretty here.

Day 10 Annapolis MD

We left Chesapeake City around 9:00 am and arrived in Annapolis around 2pm what a wonderful day on the Bay, super calm and beautiful scenery. We will be here for a couple of days so we can spend some time seeing the sights. I captured some really nice photos and will post them later tonight. Time to wash down the boat its covered with salt. More to come later.

Day 9 Chesapeake City

Today we traveled to Chesapeake City rough going out of the Cape May canal into the Delaware Bay the waves were nasty and the current wasn't any better it was very uncomfortable. Things got better about 45 mins later and an hour after that it was beautiful. Esperanza was at the city dock when we got to our slip, unfortunately we didn't share more that a big wave as we went by, I just couldn't wait to hit the showers and Jim had a maintenance issue to tend to. But they looked right at home on the dock! Hope you get a move on sooner than later! See you down the waterway, I hope next time we can share a bottle or two.

Day 8 Leaving Cape May in the AM (hopefully)

Cape May is a very nice place to be stuck for a few days but it is time to move on! Last night 12 of us went out for dinner it was a nice evening 7 Canadians 1 Aussie 2 NH 2 Ma it was great fun! I am sure we will see them along the way as we are all heading south. We hope to get to Chesapeake City (only 4 hours up the Delaware Bay) there we will meet up with Esperanza. And the best part is we will be in MD and the Patriots play MD at 1pm it will be interesting watching the game on MD turf. Good night for now, hopefully the weather will cooperate tomorrow.