2nd day Heading South -Bahamas Bound

We left lovely Yorktown early and worked our way back out to the Bay. We arrived in Norfolk, Mile Marker 0 on the ICW at 2:30 and we stopped for the day because we could not make it through the bridges by their published closing time, most at 3:3o, one at 4. The weather report was correct today: windy and stormy seas. The choppy seas were a bit uncomfortable, but more so were the many commercial vessels, mostly tugs pushing, pulling or leading container ships. They took the channel,

sometimes hailing you to move out of the channel, sometimes not hailing you and you just knew to move out of the channel


So, tomorrow are the bridges. We were not too unhappy to put them off for one more day. We are a bit over whelmed with so much new info and action, but loving it all at the same time.
Weird? You can see from the cockpit pic that we have charts everywhere, as well as 'Otto,' our favorite guy, binoculars, and anything else we can grab to 'help' us.