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A new day dawns aboard Happy Destiny |
The weather has generally been dry and hot these last couple of weeks so the storms last night and significant steady rain with temps only reaching about 77 today are a somewhat refreshing change. It was a very slow moving and easy going morning filled mostly with coffee, breakfast, and some planning for what we would do on our last couple of days aboard. DYC (Deltaville Yachting Center) has a courtesy car which is a nice feature for us when traveling by boat particularly since there is really not much immediately adjacent the marina. We had reserved the car for 11:30am and headed out to go to a noon AA meeting that we found on our app supposedly only a little over a mile away. The location the gps address brought us to was a small park like area on the water owned by a local church. There was a shelter house there and what appeared to be a nice location for an outside meeting, after waiting for anyone to arrive until 10 minutes or so after the noon hour it was determined that there apparently is not a meeting there any longer ๐คจ. While out on the point of the peninsula we did drive by and look at the lighthouse at Stingray Point before heading into the small town of Deltaville where we went to the IGA to pick up a few things (including a small bucket of fried chicken for lunch which we’d been craving since we were told about it by a lady at the pool a couple days ago). A stop through the local hardware for us a bottle of fuel stabilizer treatment (this means close to time to store the boat ๐) and a bottle of water tank freshener. As we were driving down the road we noticed that there was a church by the same name as the church that supposedly hosted the AA meeting that no one was at so we pulled in and upon entering were told that the meeting day/time had been changed. However, there happened to be another local lady from the next town over who also was unaware of this and was sitting in the room by herself with her Big Book and 12/12. A small but good meeting ensued with just the three of us…”Where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them”.
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Deltaville Deltas old school wood bleacher ball park |
Back at the boat we enjoyed our chicken thighs and drumsticks and mostly lounged around for several hours as it was still somewhat rainy. By about 4pm it had stopped raining and was just cloudy so we loaded Riva into her basket on the bike and headed over to Cross Rip Campground about 1.5 miles away down a small road winding through a heavily wooded area. Erik had called and spoke with the owner yesterday to inquire if we could bring Riva there to visit their small beach. The one downside we’ve found this far with Deltaville is the lack of public beach access. It was a nice hidden gem of a campground with nicely wooded spots and a clean, small beach with clear water. Riva went swimming on her own before being joined by another dog that showed up who she played with.
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After her beach time Riva got a bath She then drug her bed out into the center of the salon to take a nap Tuckered out pup |
The evening was spent doing a few boat chores. We shuffled some things around and made up the bow birth bed in preparation for Chelsea’s expected arrival tomorrow. A delicious dinner was prepared on the grill of our last T-bone steak we had brought from home complimented with a baked potato and most importantly 4 ears of freshly picked white sweet corn ๐ฝ that we picked up at the local farm stand earlier. The first sweet corn of the season for us was fresh and delightful! We ended the evening with a few more boat chores and watching a movie on Netflix before retiring to our cabin. Both of us had a much needed feeling of being well rested given the 2+ day with no boat movement and necessary relaxation. Erik and Chelsea are making their best efforts to talk Renee into agreeing to the cruise to Yorktown (41 miles south of here) either tomorrow or Friday to experience a colonial July 4th celebration; report on results of the convincing to come later ๐
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Bow birth bed ready for Chelsea’s arrival tomorrow This area tends to get used as a storage spot for all kinds of misc things when we’re cruising alone |
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Pic of deliciousness (before) Damage done (after) ๐ |
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