Journey South - Day One

This morning we severed the umbilical cord that was our life line to the shore power and heat and cast our dock lines to begin our journey for warmer weather in the South of the US. The picture is looking back at Dozier's Marina where we enjoyed our stay for the Summer.

We had planned to leave by 7 AM. We woke and after Larry looked at his alarm and announced the time as 7:25, I said wow we must have been very tired to sleep that late. We quickly got out of bed to start the process of preparation to leave the dock. After completing several items that needed attending to I glanced at the clock and it showed 7:05. I checked my watch and it agreed. I then took a look at Larry's alarm clock to find out he had neglected to change it the week end before. We both had a good laugh and finished up our preparations and were now only 25 minutes behind our planned departure. We had a good motor on the Chesapeake. The winds were fluky and sometimes nonexistent. We had put out the jib but it just flopped around and made noise, so we took it back in.

We normally would have gone all the way to Norfolk on this first leg of our journey but had decided to take a detour and visit with boater friends that chose to stay on the Chesapeake for the winter.















I took this picture as we got off the boat at the dock here on Perrin River. Perrin River is a small river at the mouth of the York River. The tree in the picture was getting the last of the setting sun shining on it and the Fall color of it's leaves seemed to glow like precious metal. The Fall colors here are just past peak and still beautiful to look at.















This is our friends Tom and Cathie. We had met in Marathon two years ago and then crossed back to the US from the Bahamas this Spring. We will miss them this Winter but look forward to seeing them next Summer. We enjoyed a great meal at there home and a very pleasant visit.