Our plan for the next several weeks as we make our way north in the Chesapeake is to zigzag across the Bay to see as many of the quaint and small towns as possible. Since it is unlikely that we will ever be back in this area via a boat, we want to see and experience as much as we can before we leave the Chesapeake. I can not say enough how much I have fallen in love with this area, its history, its people, and of course the food. Tuesday morning was sunny and cool as we left Tidewater Marina in Portsmouth with the day’s destination still undetermined. How exciting it is to leave a port and not have a specific place in mind for where we will be at day’s end. Now before you think that Captain Mark is being totally irresponsible and throwing caution to the wind, please know that he plotted out four possible destinations for us and will choose whichever one suits us best at the end of the day.
Again the water of the Bay was calm and relaxing. But as the day wore on, the heat and the flies grew worse and worse.
I can not say which I have more trouble with…with the heat/humidity I grow increasing more uncomfortable, sweaty, crabby and complaining. Add to that the HUGE black biting flies and I become downright bitchy – there is no other term sufficient to describe the sweating, fly swatting monster I morph into under these circumstances. So in order to survive whilst in my company, Captain Mark reluctantly but graciously allows me to shut up the boat and turn on the generator so that no more flies can enter the boat and we can continue our trip in air conditioned comfort. While I am knitting away now in air conditioned comfort and the day wears on, the weather prediction becomes more ominous and threatening. Our number one option for the evening had been to anchor in the area of Fishing Bay for the evening and then contact our Nordic friends Peggy and Terry to see if we may visit them at their home on the Piankatank River.
However, as we watched the storms that were immediately approaching and the additional storms following for the upcoming days, we decided it best to maneuver ourselves into Deltaville, Virginia and Dozier’s Regatta Point Marina for safety to wait out the storms. This once again proved to be a wise choice made by Captain Mark as the storms that followed Tuesday evening and each day for the next three days were full of fantastic lightening, fierce winds and intermittently heavy rain.
We spent the next three days watching movies: Australia (two stars) and Burn After Reading (-4 stars and I love the Coen Brothers, but this was awful). 
I spent my time catching up with the blog, completing several more lessons of my online digital photography class, knitting and basically keeping myself very busy. In the meantime, Captain Mark washed the boat, again washed the boat and then once again washed the boat. In his downtime between boat washings, Captain Mark read his Kindle and played competitive chess via an online tournament. 
Unfortunately, our schedules did not allow us to get together with Peggy and Terry during this visit. However, as the Nordic world is small, it is our sincere hope to run into them again in the future. Finally the foul weather looks like it should clear up by tomorrow. So early in the morning we will set out for the Eastern Shore with our destination being the small town of Onancock, Virginia.
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