Day 128, Monday October 28^th - A trip down the Bay

For a second early morning in a row, Julie was up at 5:30 grinding coffee to get us going.  Dawson is starting to suspect that aliens have her.  We are departing from the Solomon Islands, approximately half way down the Chesapeake, on our way to Hampton Virginia, located at the mouth.  It is from Hampton that we will leave for the Bahamas on our 800 mile ocean passage on Nov. 4^th.    It will still take us two more days to get to Hampton.  We had looked at the wind forecast and it does not look like a good day for sailing but off we go.  There is no wind to speak of so it was a motoring trip today for 10 hours.  It makes for a long day having the engine noise groaning away.  There are 2 other salty dawg rally boats anchoring with us as we move south.  We see a few Pelicans, lots of other boats, but no dolphins.  Julie is anxious to see her first wild dolphin on this trip.  We envision a school of them frolicking along the boat as we travel.

The ratio of bad hair days has now overtaken the good hair days, so most pictures are now accompanied with a hat.  There is a report of a person lost overboard along our route of travel so we are keeping an eye to the water in hopes that we spot the poor fellow.  The Coast Guard has asked all boaters to be vigilant as they pass though the area.  Unfortunately the calls of Pan Pan from the CG continue until we anchor.  We do get a bit of wind at the end of the day so that we can sail for the last hour into Fish Harbour our home for the night which near Deltaville Virginia.  The good news is that we have heard it is always warm in Virgina.

By 17:30 we are at anchor in a nicely protected harbour with a number of other boats, quite a few are Canadian.  Another excellent dinner by Julie (soup this time), coffee and a game of King’s Cribbage and it is off to bed.   A Simple Yet Fullfilling Life.

Cheers

Dawson and Julie