Callao, VA

After taking Archie for his daily on-shore walk in Port Tobacco, we hoisted the anchor at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, October 19.  The days are slipping by now that we are on the return leg of our voyage.  We were bound for Olverson’s Marina in Callao, VA.  It is located on lovely Lodge Creek off of the Yeocomico River which is off of the Potomac River.

The day started off very chilly with temperatures in the low 40’s but it warmed up considerably as the day wore on.  It turned out to be a beautiful sunny day with a little chop on the water.  It was smooth sailing for us, however, because the wind and waves were on our stern, in other words we had following seas.

We arrived at Olverson’s Lodge Creek Marina at 3:00 and tied up at the fuel dock to take advantage of the good fuel prices there.

We hadn’t been to Olverson’s in a few years and wanted to support them since they are such strong supporters of MTOA.  Freddie Olverson recently passed away at 86 and he had been instrumental in his advocacy for MTOA for many years.  He gives MTOA members one free night of dockage each year.  Most notably, he established Lodge Creek Yacht Club at his marina and all MTOA members have an honorary membership in it.  That provides us with the ability to stay at most yacht clubs up and down the east coast which is a great benefit to cruisers.

We docked at the fuel dock for our overnight stay and were greeted by Steve, Freddie’s son-in-law, who is now managing the marina.  He was very gracious and welcoming and offered us free dockage for the night even though we were not planning to ask him for it.  We were docked across from Freddie’s trawler named for his wife’s pet name for him.

Olverson’s Marina sits on many acres of land.  The surrounding countryside is quite beautiful with lots of open lawns - great for Archie to run free.  It also has space for people to store their RVs.  It’s always nice to be in wide open spaces after spending so much time in cities and towns.  The marina, which is usually quite busy and very social, was very quiet.  Few people were around due to it being the end of the season and mid-week.

We settled back on Zendo after a nice long walk.  In December we are going to a post-wedding celebration for one of Jonny’s cousins and I spent a lot of time looking at Air B&Bs there and ended up making reservations for Andy, Ed, Jonny and me at a residence hotel that his cousin had recommended, 

We are trying to use up the food in our freezer and for dinner we had the last of the mushroom ravioli from our trip to the Bronx’s Little Italy.  Our usual evening entertainment followed and we didn’t get to bed until 11.