Day 182, Year 8: Windbird’s Trek to Cape Cod, Day 5
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2013
Weather: Overcast, Winds NE 12-20 in Protected Anchorage, Temp in the 60’s F
Latitude: 35 32.433 N
Longitude: 076 37.980 W
Location: Intracoastal Waterway, Mile 135, Still in Belhaven
Windbird didn’t move today, so she is still at anchor in Belhaven. The Alligator River Bridge has not reopened so we’ll just have to wait and see what progress is made tomorrow. We are keeping our heads above water here, but three little boys take enough time that not much other than just taking care of them is getting done. Our day starts between 6:00 and 6:30 am when the boys get up and there’s not a minute to sit down between then and 8:30 pm when they go to bed. I must admit that I did get a nap this afternoon as I was holding Oliver during his nap. But otherwise, it is go, go, go for fourteen straight hours. And then when they go to bed, it is time to clean-up the kitchen, so I don’t sit down to read emails and write the log until after 10 pm. Heather did get some time today to work on beehive projects, but that was the only non-kid related work that got done—other than the constant laundry. Sam and Jonah had requested a Saturday morning breakfast of pancakes with red, white, and blue whipped cream, so that is what we had this morning. I then watched in the boys in the backyard while Heather worked on the hives. We all had naps this afternoon, and Ollie, Sam, and I are all feeling much better today. After nap we took the boys to the local elementary school playground (which has a great circle track) to ride bikes. Sam is loving bike riding now that he can do it without training wheels. And today Heather rode her bike to the playground with the kid trailer attached. I took Jonah and Ollie in the van and once there, they both rode in the bike trailer. Ollie continues to entertain us. Tonight while Heather and I were sitting on the bed reading to Sam and Jonah, Ollie was playing on the floor. He decided he wanted our attention and came over and played peek-a-boo. He would squat down so we couldn’t see him and then pop up with a great big smile. He did this over and over and had us laughing so hard our stomachs hurt.
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| 130504 Day 182, Cape Cod, USA–Saturday at the Goldstones |
Now for the Captain’s Log for Saturday, May 4:
“Though it has not turned out to be as windy here as predicted, the Alligator River Bridge is still closed and the predictions are for high winds again tomorrow. Apparently it must be windier there than here at anchor in Belhaven. We have enjoyed a quiet day. We put the dingy in the water with the outboard and went into town late this morning. We enjoyed walking around town which has some old southern-style homes and a small downtown with a hardware store as big as any city might have. Since it was Saturday we poked our heads in on a church organized yard sale. Except it was inside, not in a yard. People are very friendly – and of course, they seemed to know immediately that we were off a boat. That’s probably because the town is small enough that everyone who lives here knows everyone else who lives here. When we dinghied back to Windbird we saw dolphins cavorting in the harbor around us. Once on the boat we snoozed, read, and checked the weather once again. We left the dingy in the water in case we end up here another day. We can pull it out in the morning and head on to Alligator River if the weather looks like it will calm down by Monday (when we will be crossing the Albemarle Sound). I think we all feel we have done Belhaven and are ready to move on. We are starting to plan our days sailing up the Chesapeake.
And I am envying Judy’s time with the grandkids!
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| 130504 Day 182 Passage to Cape Cod–Day 5, Belhaven |
