She also tells us: "this marina does not have much in the way of grocery shopping". An understatement, at least. When we finally found a grocery store after walking for what seemed like forever and on, it had barred windows, and offered as an attraction, Armed Guards. Hmm, I wonder what that tell us?
Now their are grocery stores that deliver to Waterside Marina, but then that option was not available. So we bought what we could, loaded up the backpacks with groceries, smiled at the guards and trudged back to the boat. The joys of cruising never end.
Seeing a break in the weather we decided to leave Waterside for Mobjack Bay.
Kay says: "We headed North down the Elizabeth River. The channel is well marked and wide enough for us little guys and the large ships going to and from Norfolk/Portsmouth." More like a cockle shell in a sea of leviathans. We had never seen anything like it, Aircraft Carriers, Battleships, Container ships and other such "monsters." We left the river over the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel and into the Bay where we discovered the "small ship channel", marked with yellow day marks leading us on and up. We were happy to be there then, but ever after it was never there again. Maybe its existence was our imagination, but even so, it was more than welcome.