Monday, October 28:  A day of seeing much of the Norfolk and Portsmouth US Navy ships.  They are huge.  Lots of grey and impressive size with all kind of tugs helping them out of the inlet between  Cape Henry and Cape Charles, the tip of the DelMarVa peninsula.  The cranes that look like transformer giraffesWe started down the Intracoastal Waterway along with other snowbirds heading south.  Mazu and I now have our sea legs now not a hint of getting sick.  Also there was no wind or waves on this very narrow area through the industrial Navy and commercial yards of Norfolk and Portsmouth.  South of this is huge areas of the piedmont - wetlands, grasslands, low flat and a major flyway for birds.  We are averaging about 7 k.  It's like a jog south. 
    We won a free night at Atlantic Yacht Basin from the Snowbird Rendezvous in Hampton so that's where we stopped our first night on the canal. We haven't been able to find NPR on the radio and I'm lost.  It reminds me of what my daughter, Sarah, once said as we drove into a southwestern US town with no radio stations, "Never live where there is no music on the radio."  I say Never live where there is no NPR!  All the "free" wifi at the marinas is terrible - not enough bandwidth to stay on long enough to get email.  Fortunately Drew has the Verizon 4G modem Pantech so that's what is bringing you these photos and blog.