Today is Monday, August 29th, and we returned to the boat yesterday afternoon to find no damage! However, the water level was really high and we had to walk through about 6 inches of water in order to get to the walkway to the boat. Then the boat had risen so high that we had to climb aboard via the swim platform in the back. The top of the boat came very close to hitting the roof of this boatshed. The water level is starting to go down now fortunately.
We spent 2 nights at the Marriott TownePlace Suites and Saturday we experienced the full impact of the hurricane as it poured constantly all day and the wind was very strong. Of course we stayed in the room all day watching the news. We ventured outside once or twice to the covered porch but it was too bad to stay out more than a couple of minutes. On Sunday morning we took a walk around the hotel and saw a number of trees down as well as part of the roof torn off the Red Roof Inn next door. It could have been a lot worse but it had downgraded to a category l.
We'd like to leave tomorrow but found out that the locks right next to the Great Bridge have electrical damage caused by the hurricane and they don't know when they will be fixed. Great Bridge is right outside this marina and to head north we have to go through it and then the locks. We've decided to go to Norfolk which is only 12 miles away and spend a couple of days there before venturing into the Chesapeake Bay. Hopefully, we can leave soon. We rode our bikes to the grocery store today and picked up a few items we could fit into our backpacks so we're prepared to leave.
Beginning in the Spring of 2011, this is a story of a journey in our 36' Heritage East Trawler as we cruise The Great Loop, a circumnavigation of Eastern North America, along the shoreline of the United States and Canada - truly a trip of a lifetime.
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