Saturday, June 16, 2007

We left Coinjock, NC at 8 am and spent the morning traveling on the winding North Landing River following the intercoastal water way channel markers to keep in the deeper part of the channel. Almost all of the red and green channel markers which stand about 14 feet high had large hawk nests on the top of the marker. We saw many baby hawks being feed by their mother as she hovered over them on top of their nest. We passed through several draw bridges on our trip on the river-timing the ride so we did not have to wait too long for the bridge tender to open the bridge.

Our boat docked alongside the Great Bridge TownDock in Virginia. We had to wait 45 minutes to pass through the Great Bridge as it only opens hourly.

A picture of Great Bridge with tug and barge passing through and headed for the lock which lies just head. We are docked just ahead of the yacht "Starsong" which belongs to Gayle and Dick Glover who we met while we were at the Alligator River Marina.