Thursday, November 9, 2006

We departed Hampton, VA this morning for the entrance of the Intercoastal Waterway about 13 miles south at the city of Norfolk, VA. This trawler followed us out of the channel .











This is a journey up the Elizabeth River past the Norfolk Naval Yard and many other Navy Yards almost every where you look. You wonder how they get things like aircraft carries down this river and into maintance docks.


The Norfolk waterfront.














The naval yards.














We ended the day tied up to a public dock at Great Bridge, VA about 12 miles south of Norfolk. While it sounds like we did not make much progress today, this was a tough section of the ICW where we had a number of draw bridges that only open on the hour or half hour and one lock to traverse.

It was incredibly WARM today in the mid 70's and we could finally shead most of our "layers" of clothing for a change.