October 16th – Jackson Creek/ Deltaville, VA

I’m glad we pulled in here. The weather today is quite stormy. Lots of wind and rain. Apparently, up in New England, it’s worse. I was told that they have been suffering from a draught around the Chesapeake, so hopefully this rain helps. We’ve been enjoying the dry weather. Tomorrow is looking ok but there are 30mph winds predicted. Sounds like to much work for us. We’ll stay another day.

Rainy view off the back porch. I have a canvas awning over the cockpit to deflect some of the rain.

I like this Deltaville Marina. The bathrooms and showers are the nicest we’ve seen in awhile. The staff have been very helpful. Lynne and Ollie did laundry today. They were able to spend the day in the lounge. I scrubbed the bottom of the dinghy. Both of us are busy most days. Tomorrow, I’m planning on changing the oil in the diesel engine. I’m hoping the boat yard will accept the used oil and filter. It seems like a good place to haul a boat if it was in need of work.

We haven’t had a chance to check out the town yet. There is a maritime museum up the road. Maybe we’ll make it over there tomorrow (between projects).

Incidentally, we left Padanaram Harbor (Dartmouth, MA) one month ago.