Departed Deltaville 8:00AM and arrived in Norfolk, VA at 4:00PM
Today's miles- 68 Total miles- 567.5
While it was a long day, when we travel like this, we make our coffee and start up on the fly bridge to get ready for the days trip. When we are ready for breakfast, we go down and pilot the boat from the lower steering station which also has a GPS chart plotter to follow our progress. With our satellite TV, we put on the morning news so it is like driving from your kitchen. After breakfast, we go back up to the fly bridge to pilot from there. It works out well.
The seas were a 3 to 4 foot chop which aren't bad for our boat. We made good time to Norfolk which is the official beginning of the intracoastal waterway starting with mile marker "1"
The waves were not bad when we left.
There are many tugs and commercial traffic along this course.
We began to see Navy type of ships as we got closer to Norfolk.
As you enter the port of Norfolk, you go past the Navy yard. These ships are huge!
Not sure what type of Naval ship this is.
Even the Naval helicopters were out.
The fleet make our old Irish Rover feel very small!
We anchored across from the City (Norfolk) in the Hospital Point anchorage which is in front of the Naval Hospital. This war ship in front of the city is a museum.
This is MAGIC which is a boat from Maine with a great couple we met along the way. They are also on their way to Florida.
We are at anchor across from the city which I didn't realize was as big as it is.
The lights are great from our cabin at night!
When we woke up, there was the Carnival Glory in front of us. They do weekly cruises out of Norfolk.
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