River Dunes

Last night I planned to title the post" River Dunes....but not"  because we were asked by RD if we could put off coming in until Sunday as this weekend was members weekend and much of the facility was closed.  We came anyway, but anchored about a mile past the entrance to River Dimes up the creek. ...And then, no signal!! So I'm writing tonight instead.

I couldn't get the moon and the tiny cottages that line the entrance channel to River Dunes in
the same frame, so had to improvise.

The trip from Belhaven should have been a snap, but we seemed to have dirty fuel or some sort of blockage because the engine would just suddenly slow and shut down every so often.  Dan would go down and mess with the fuel filter and get it going again, but we sent the rest on and limped along until we got to Hobucken where a small fleet of shrimpers tie up and where diesel is available.  We filled up (tank was only half empty) but we didn't have any problem after that.

Once we were anchored ( the trip was 32 nm) everyone came over to Brunelle for cocktails.  We sent everyone home with a "favor".  Dan had stopped at the hardware store in Belhaven and bought a box of fly paper tubes because the flies had moved in with a vengence, so everyone got their very own roll of fly paper!...we're currently on our second strip.  The first filled up rapidly!

We enjoyed a lovely sunset and then Dan delivered everyone back to their own boats.

Dan was up in time to get a picture of sunrise this morning (Sunday)...amazing how similar it is to last night's sunset!  Just a little quieter.

 

By 10 am we are told we could come in and take a slip so we went in first so Dan could go back out (by dinghy) to help Kathy bring Pekabu III in.  Pete left early this morning in a rented car to head back to Delaware to be there while his mom has eye surgery.

Dan spent the day getting boat cleaned and I cooked a dinner that we all shared up at the Manor House.  It was closed but they said we could use the screened in porch and had we a  lovely time.  We have been rejoined by Pinnicale.  They had gone east from the VA cut because their mast is too high for some of the bridges.  

I know most blog readers are following because they get an email each time we post, but the blog itself has been activated a bit more by our trusty administrator/son, Sam, and there are two ways to see where we are,  One is the Marine Traffic map and the other is the SPOT map.  Check it out if you have time!  ~~~_/)~~~M&D