Follow Those Geese

On Saturday, October 19 at 7:35 a.m. we weighed anchor from Eagle Cove (behind Gibson Island on the Magothy River) to start our southern migration. The geese were happy to lead the way! After being anchored here for 28 days the chain required extra pressure washer attention. I am sooo lucky, because it was Keith’s turn at anchor duty😁. Keith and I are both excited to get moving again.  We have already embraced the nomad lifestyle and felt anxious to get moving, but we had quite a long ‘to do’ list before we could leave.  One of the important items on the list was the purchase of an offshore life raft from the Annapolis Sailboat Show.

Hopefully we’ll never need it, but this is the new life raft we ordered.  We are scheduled to pick it up from the company sometime in January when we are passing through Miami. The people at Datrex were fabulous, and they have promised a tour of the facility when we visit.  I am very excited to have the opportunity to see how these life rafts are tested and packed.  If they let me take pictures I will be able to share the experience with you.  We have a long way to travel before we reach Miami.

Goodbye Chesapeake Bay Bridge, we probably won’t pass under you again for a long time!  Our plan is to travel down the Bay in three 50-60 mile legs.  The first was to Solomon’s then onto Deltaville (where I am writing this post) tomorrow we will travel to Norfolk, where we will pick up our new shaft couplers (another purchase from our boat show list). 

Luckily, our friends Eddie and Gail on Seaquel are also heading south, so we get to ‘buddy boat’ down the Bay...fun!!

We will miss some of the landmarks of our ‘home waters’.  Thomas Point Lighthouse, National Historic Landmark and icon of the Chesapeake Bay. This screw-pile design allows the lighthouse to stand on piles that are screwed into a sandy or muddy bottom.

What a difference 60 miles makes.  Smith Point Lighthouse welcomes us to Virginia.

Pelicans!!!!!  I love pelicans, but they seem to taunt me. I want so badly to capture one of those glorious pictures of the pelican gliding a few feet above the bow of the boat, but never have the camera ready.  I won’t give up...one day I will get the picture!

And this was our welcoming committee to Solomon’s Island.  We felt very privileged!