Preparations for Travels Up the Chesapeake; Anchored in Portsmouth, VA

We drove the rental car from NYC back to Chesapeake, VA arriving around 11:30 pm and relished being back aboard our cozy floating home. We used our last few hours of the rental car to do some grocery shopping and to obtain a cruising guide for the Chesapeake as we knew we wanted to spend two weeks exploring it but we didn’t know where to begin.  Our errands took us a little longer than planned and by the time we were ready to cast off, it was 2:30 pm but because ICW bridge schedules between us and Norfolk are such that we’d have to circle around for an hour until their next opening, we waited until 4 pm to depart Atlantic Yacht Basin.  We traveled through the lock adjacent to Great Bridge and then under several bridges and anchored at hospital point in Portsmouth, VA just opposite downtown Norfolk around 6:30 pm. We enjoyed our store cooked bbq ribs, cornbread, and baked beans while watching tugs and barges pass close by in this busy port.

Waiting for the "normally open" RR bridge to open