Horn Harbor, VA

First thing on Thursday morning, June 16, Jonny walked about a half mile to the local Food Lion to stock up on a few essentials.  I fed Archie (including a CBD biscuit) and took him for a walk in the park to chase sticks.  He seemed a lot happier than the day before. Let’s hope that he stays that way!

We left the Deep Creek dock in the Dismal Swamp at 8:30 and traversed through the lock there.  It had the cutest lockmaster’s office!

Two days later we noticed that we must have lost one of our our nice big blue fenders in the lock because it wasn’t there when we needed it at the next marina we stayed.

But blissfully unaware of that loss, we cruised along past historic Hampton, VA, the big ships in Norfolk and onto the Chesapeake Bay.  Our initial goal was to anchor in Mobjack Bay.

It was an overcast and cool day and we ran into a little rain in Norfolk but it didn’t persist.  At first it looked like a smooth passage on the bay which can be notoriously choppy.  But as we proceeded along, it began to get pretty rolly. Archie was not comfortable and he wanted to be held the whole time.

We watched the January 6 hearings as we cruised. They are riveting!  

Although we were planning to cruise to Mobjack Bay, we decided to go a bit further and to anchor in Horn Harbor.  To get there we followed a very long and skinny channel and anchored in 6 feet of water with no other boats around.  It was a very pretty and fairly remote setting.

We took Archie in the dinghy and motored to the Horn Harbor Marina where we tied up to the fuel dock and took him for a walk.  We introduced ourselves to the owners and poked around a little.  There were a lot of boats in their boatyard in various stages of repair as well as a pool which is always a nice feature.

Afterwards we headed back to Zendo, ate leftovers for dinner and made an early night of it.