Day 340 Portsmouth to Deltaville Tuesday April 23, 2019

Day 340  Portsmouth to Deltaville Tuesday April 23, 2019

The night was cool and still.  The sun was in full control all day.  Winds were 10 knots in the afternoon. Temperatures started low 50s and warmed to mid70s.

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The day dawned clear and glorious. The cool temperatures of last night fell to the wayside as the sun marched higher in the sky. The temperature reached a wonderful 75 degrees with a light southerly wind.

Today was the first day in 35 days that we are in open water. It feels really great. Riding in a "ditch" or river from nearly last August starting in Chicago with only one way to go created a feeling at times of confinement. The expanse of the Chesapeake Bay made us feel like we were nearly home. But before reaching open water we had to finish navigating the land of navy warships and commercial traffic- but it was fine.

We have just left the marina and are in the channel that heads out to sea.

Warships such as these destroyers, line the docks.

And a commercial vessel at 12 knots is good to add to the mix.

And the last ships in dock where carriers. The first the Dwight Eisenhower and ..

The second the Harry S Truman.

And then we have our bow pointed to sea.

We travel off the land for a ways to avoid shoals including the one at Wolf Trap Light on the western shore of the bay.

And I know it is tough to see them in this photo, but if you enlarge it you can see the relatively large number of crab pot buoys that line this area of the bay - ah the thought of lobster trap buoys everywhere in Maine is both satisfying and agitating all at once.

And we anchored in Fishing Bay.

And dinghied into Fishing Bay Marina and a nice lady let us tie up.

We took a walk and found the very large West Marine. The road was not very busy - but there must be a reason that it is there. I did need a few things so it was fortuitous it was here. We then had a "linner" at the Galley Grill. A fabulous mushroom and Swiss burger for me and homemade chicken salad sandwich for Faye.

And the Fishing Bay Marina even has a pool!!

But I think there needs to be a little pool cleaning from the winter before ready.
The next door boat yard had a surprising number of boats on the hard. The weather here is like in late May back home so expected to see far more boats in the water.

Many of these boat look like they may have stayed in over the winter.

And a few more interesting boat names. This one I will let you draw your own interpretation.

"A Lifestyle" certainly looks lived on.

This one was funny for us as we used to say "Our next child will be fiberglass." Guess they had the same thought.

And this was just an interesting boat along the lines of the "skipjack" boats used in the past by fisherman in the Bay.

And this boat we noticed was For Sale. We then noticed that it is from British Columbia. They likely had it shipped here for some eastern cruising and decided to not do the reverse.

And here is a better photo of our anchorage. Not so confined as in the AICW.

And a close up of our home for nearly a full year now.

And earlier this evening we played remote Mexican Train with Jim and Justine on Knights' Kingdom. I am pleased to report that the Captains have finally won a game after four by the Admirals. Our success will likely be short lived so we are savoring it for the moment.

And now that the sun has raced on to light parts further west, it is time to say ...............

Good Night and May God Bless