Today is Saturday, September 3rd and we're still here in Waterside Marina in Norfolk having arrived Wednesday afternoon. We went to the Nauticus Museum and the Battleship Wisconsin yesterday and spent most of the afternoon there as it was so interesting. I didn't realize that ship was commissioned in 1944 and used in WWII, Korean War and the Gulf War.
The marina is situated next to a great park but in the evenings they have either live entertainment or piped in music which can get quite loud at times but at least they stop at a decent hour.
We had gone across the channel Thursday morning for the pumpout and Mike decided to take a little cruise down the channel to see what was here. We turned around and were on our way back when we noticed a submarine being towed by two tugboats. All of a sudden this little coast guard boat speeds up toward us and through the loud speaker said we needed to be 500 yards away from the sub. We were on the edge of the channel and had nowhere to move so there was not much we could do. In the meantime I'm taking pictures because it was such an unusual sight and they yelled at me "NO PICTURES!" Here we are U.S. citizens minding our own business and these are little 19 or 20 year old kids manning a machine gun on the front of their boat screaming at us. It was very frustrating!
Needless to say, we've had a lot of adventures on this trip. We're leaving Monday morning for the York River near Yorktown, VA to check out several marinas to keep the boat for the winter months so we can make side trips through the Chesapeake Bay but use the one marina as a base.
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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