Norfolk

Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 20 Nov 2011 23:47
Finally We Leave Deltaville and Head South to Norfolk
 
 
 
 
 
 
A bright, clear and crisp morning. A last look back at the Deltaville Marina Offices
 
The girl looking good and ready to go, so at a quarter past seven this morning we slipped backward out of our parking space and wiggled out into the newly dredged channel, past the crab pots and out into the Chesapeake Bay. What a great feeling.
 
 
Rounding the final bend
 
 
 
Chippy, certainly. I dressed in the outfit Joe gave me - marvellous; hat and gloves from Dennis and Miss Becky - cosy. Bear wrapped up well
 
   
 
Not too long before we saw familiar sights, chums, working girls and sea birds, including what I thought far away was a chum - up close a lighthouse - oh well, still rooming in to this business, (our last journey going in to Deltaville was the last day of July)
 
 
 
As we approached Norfolk it was lovely to see an English lady, Cape Osprey of London. This bulk carrier has a gross tonnage of 81,589 tons, Summer DWT of  161,448 tons, her length 280 meters, beam 45 meters and a draught of 14.9 meters. She is on the Lloyds Shipping Register, built in 1995 by Hyundai Heavy Industries and owned by Cortland Marine.
 
 
We met Chief hard at work over our right shoulder
 
 
In front of us the dockyard and the 'big girls'
 
 
How tiny the yacht looks as we get closer
 
 
 
 
Passing the Navy and on to the commercial area
 
 
 
Steven McCallister went by and a few minutes later his 'missus' Susan followed
 
 
 
Once again I get to oggle the big sets of Meccano but a surprise for Bear - to the left of the yellow cranes
 
 
 
Trains. Who would have thought we would see that and the cranes look like they are stepping up, quite something and very different
 
 
A girl in bandages with her own patrol to guard her........
 
 
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................ but funniest was the "No Wake" notice to keep the toilets level
 
Soon enough forty two miles later, it was four o'clock, we were at anchor and the backgammon was out. The afternoon was warm enough to sit for a while in the cockpit but as soon as the sun dropped it was as chippy as first thing this morning. Everything felt just as it should, to feel the wind in our faces - grand.
 
 
 
ALL IN ALL JUST AS IT SHOULD BE
                     MARVELOUS TO GET GOING AGAIN