Deltaville VA to Hampton VA

    

Start time and hours                   0850                                3379.87

End time and hours                    1515                               3386.28

     We left the anchorage in Deltaville and continued south on the Chesapeake to Hampton VA.  We would be anchoring across from Norfolk/Portsmouth VA and the start of the ICW.

     Once again, the weather and seas were very calm on our ride.  The sun was out and it was comfortably warm on the flybridge.  During the ride we came across a pod of dolphins, about 20 or so.  They were swimming in a line across our bow.  The sun would reflect off of their backs as they broke the surface.  It is hard to get good photos of them with our cameras but we gave it a shot.

     As we got close to Hampton we encountered a little more boat traffic.  We saw a couple of huge MERCK container ships leaving the James river and heading out into the bay.  They are enormous and faster than you might imagine.  Stay very far away from them.

     We anchored in Mill Creek off of Fort Monroe.  After we came in, four sailboats came in to anchor.  A couple of them were a little close behind us, hopefully our generator bothered them a little.  There was plenty of room in the anchorage and they could have moved a couple of hundred feet away.

     We relaxed for the afternoon, had dinner, and then listened to the Patriots beat the Falcons (again) on Westwood One radio.