Deltaville Summer

We've had several people ask us to update our blog..sorry took a week. We sat at Jackson Creek, Deltaville, VA ordering our solar panels and all that goes with that and looking around the boat at all the little maintence jobs we have to do. We need to change the engine oil, have the leaks in canvas fixed and have the boat hauled to strip the bottom. Long as it will be hauled we will get to do things like wax the hull. So as much as we wanted to get all the way up the coast, we think it would be smarter to make Deltaville our summer port. Did you know that it's only a five and half hour drive to NY from here.  Sailors rarely get to think in short hours to get that far, usually weeks. (I'm including waiting for weather windows). 

So we think we have it worked out. Jon's xboss and friend, Tommy offered to pick us up via his plane early in July. (I promise to take pictures of Jon's scared face). We will go to Utica to get Jon's van back on the road so we'll have road transportation when we need it. We will travel to NJ to stay with friends, Kelly and Lynda's house and visit Sara in NYC.  First of August we will head to North Bay for the Tucker Reunion and second week head to Utica to see Aaron and all our family and friends there, then head back to NJ for Kelly and Lynda's wedding. We should be back to Deltaville by first of September via road trip. 

Until then it will be project time.  We will probably do a project blog.    

In the meantime, we are still enjoying the adult and baby Osprey. Yesterday we heard and saw a young osprey learning to fly. They cried the whole time and flapped their wings a hundred times a minute. While the adult glided above him. So funny to see and hear them (pretty similar to a child learning to ride the bike for the first time.,,I imagine them saying "mom, mom, mom, I'm doing it!!! Look!! Look!! Oh here I go... Ah I'm gliding.. No I can't, wait, wait, wait, look!! I'm doing it."  So funny, 

Met this woman, Debra, in grocery store parking lot.  She rescued this poor little deer that was injured by side of the road. The wildlife agency couldn't get to her for several hours. She asked Jon and I to go inside to buy 2% milk and baby.bottle. 

   Pretty twighlight sky from our dingy

 One of the homes around our anchorage

Jackson Creek anchorage in Deltaville

Might be a little to close to the nest..time to go

Brandy-new bikes for marina. We use them to run into town. 

When it's a little to far to bike or we need a lot, we have use of the marina car. 

     Marina, pretty property