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Atlantic ICW New post Sailing Top Sites Tuesday

It Makes Me Wonder

My first thought as we sailed into the Florida Keys is God has created such beautiful places.
It makes me wonder about home on the Chesapeake Bay… Did it look like this at one time before all the pollution? The bay at home does have times when it gets flushed out it turns sort of clear but nothing like this. It has been a long sail to get here, stopping for a rest last month was a good idea, I feel as though we have sailed to the end of the Earth, well worth it though. Check out the photo of the water when we anchored up a couple days ago.

water and winch

It was spooky, scary and exciting all at the same time. There is no depth perception when the water is so clean, one just has to trust in the instruments that you are in the right place. This was taken in uncharted water we had to feel our way in so to speak so not to run aground.

My second thought is as we have sailed the last few years I have realized how important it is to take care of our environment. We need to stop wasting money on things that are unnecessary, I won’t start listing what I think they are… That’s another blog post for sure, but I will say if I have to take a drug test to earn the money so they can hand it out, then the recipients should have to take one to get assistance. I never gave it so much thought before, maybe I was just caught up in the rat race. But they have been saying this for years and now I know why.

We are taking another break for a bit here in Boot Key Harbor… Maybe a little fishing, some beach time under the coconut tree, than it will be time to follow the wind again.

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Have a great Tuesday
Wolfbernz

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The Land Of The Living

As I look out my port hole here in Dark Shadows…

I had to write that lol

Really though this is like night and day – coming from the farm and landing in Florida where there are people everywhere including boats on the water.

It’s almost like culture shock… We left the farm that is in the middle of nowhere and a thirty minute drive to do anything and landed in the middle of the land of the living. There are cars, barking dogs, boats going by, people strolling by and an occasional big bird that sounds like some one is on the boat! It is weird to wake up to music playing and it’s not yours to control, maybe it’s the not having neighbors on the farm that makes it feel that way. Just a short walk and there is whatever you need, it is so convenient.

So my first thought when we arrived was to ask – is that a restaurant that serves beer, a fish basket and fries!!?

“Why yes sir”, was the reply

My second thought was, well than… Get the hell outta the way!

It was nice to have a dinner out and a good one too. It is supposed to be in the high seventies all week and a comfortable mid-fifties at night. So today we get to walk and check the town out as we pick up some parts and make a few repairs before we head out again and go south. It looks like we will be here a month.

This makes the memories of the hard parts of the trip ( Coming around Maw Point – 35 knot, NE winds with Quartering large seas, water over the boat) seam not so big a deal now.

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Atlantic ICW Sailing Top Sites Tuesday

Tuesday’s Two Thoughts

It has been tough at times on the water, we got beat up pretty good the other day – there were thirty five knot winds and we were going to weather… Cold and wet.

This brings me to my first thought today. I woke up to a warm and cozy, quiet marina anchorage… Looked out the window at the nice waterfront of downtown Norfolk and the oldest naval hospital in the US in town of Portsmouth Virginia. I didn’t want to even get up after yesterday’s dodging ships and naval vessels trying to get where we are now. But to no avail, it was time to get up and make the decision of the day, do we stay or go… Next stop is about forty or fifty miles from here depending if we go through the Dismal Swamp or the Virginia Cut, the fast route that is more developed.

My second though is Trina and I have had some fun doing the history that is abundant in the Chesapeake and the ICW. We have had the fun of visiting the river that leads all the way to Washington DC and walked the roads of old Virginia that had homes circa the seventeen hundreds. We crossed the area that the big water battle between the Monitor and Merrimac was fought in the civil war. I am enjoying the fun of seeing these areas. I did not understand some of the history of this area until I came out to the water and started this trip – for some reason it all just started making sense.

I have missed a few days in posting but that’s the way it goes sometimes, all has been pretty good out here. We have been lucky and made some good decisions that have made some of the last crossings very nice… Except when coming into Hampton Roads at night that was a bit difficult to navigate with all the ship channels, flashing buoys and Trina telling me to “head more to the flashing red buoy” from down below when I could see fifteen of them… Yikes – That’s not what I really said, LOL it was more like “Which damn red buoy and what are it’s signals?” Each buoy has it’s own signal – flash one time every three seconds or flash three times every five seconds and so on.

I know it sounds like we aren’t working but sometimes I could use a good day at work to get some rest, LOL

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Wolfbernz

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