In the morning, after grabbing a couple bags of ice we had a good departure. Floated right out of our slip backwards, then up the inlet a ways until a wide spot between a couple of fishing trawlers, then a nice tight turn to get the boat pointed forward.
It was a nice easy day, with lots of wide open rivers and bays. We arrived in Belhaven, where the anchor eventually bit well and made a big smile on the anchor alarm. This is apparently the place where the idea of the Intracoastal Waterway was born.
I cooked steaks on the back of the boat after giving them a little sous vide type treatment in the oven. Overnight a few very little bugs seemed to have gotten past our screens.
In morning Heather had a bit of a headache so we delayed our departure while I got other chores done, like mapping out how to get through the Norfolk area. The book we just got describes it as just as busy, and perhaps more complicated, than the New York Harbor area. I had taken a boat navigation class that had a simulator of a boat bridge in the back of the room. One of the locations they put you in was NY harbor. I crashed into many things in NY harbor.
We finally departed Belhaven, low on ice. We thought we'd try to make it to Alligator River Marina for more ice, just on other side of a bridge. As we were making our way Heather suddenly realizes that we are currently scheduled to cross the Norfolk area on Memorial Day weekend. Noooooo. I think we startled the deer on the shore.
So we reschedule, as this is a better area to spend a couple extra days on the hook or such, not just south of Norfolk (although we end up doing that too). So we plan on staying two days anchored outside the Alligator River Marina, taking the dinghy in to get ice and such.
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