roweboatadventures: NORFOLK to YORKTOWN / Friday, May 6 to Monday, May 9 (Days 106-109)

Admiral's Log: 7:30 am, Fri. 5/6/16
Winds: calm
Speed: 6.6 mph

It was a rainy and chilly departure today. But Mike was getting itchy to get on the water again. We got a text at 4 am from Mel that the Bay was pretty calm compared to yesterday when they left under small craft warnings!

Norfolk is the largest Naval Station on the east coast, so we saw a lot of navy ships as we were leaving the harbor.

Hospital Ship- Comfort

We passed the Old Point Comfort Lighthouse which is still operational. As you can see by the GPS photo, it was originally part of Fort Monroe.

See the moat around the old fort?

We got the Wormly Creek Marina at 11:40. We rented a car and went to the grocery. We ate left over beef stew and watched the Lightning.

We are driving to pick up Carson tomorrow and plan to tour the "Historical Triangle"; Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown, for the next several days.
Plenty of photos to come I'm sure. We hear the weather is suppose to cooperate!

Saturday, we rented a car and drove to Rockville to pick up Carson. We had dinner at the Yorktown Pub where we watched the Kentucky Derby and saw Lone Star (Kevin and Steve) and Phase II (Dave and Lori).

Sunday, we started out at Jamestown Settlement then went to Historical Jamestown. We watched a film about the first settlement then walked around the reproduction English ships and Powhatan Indian Village. We had shrimp and stuffed crab for dinner and watched the Lightning eliminate the NY Islanders and move on the the next round in the Playoffs. Go Bolts!

Entrance to Jamestown Visitor Center

Reproductions of the Discovery and Godspeed Ships

Carson's Leonardo DiCaprio impression on the Titanic.

Pocahontas

After Jamestown, we drove to the Yorktown recreation site where you can experience life in that period of a farm and army encampment. Some excavating is still going on. The re-inactor guy was pretty funny. He got the crowd involved in marching and turning in unison.

There really isn't anything at the Yorktown Battlefield but Earthwork Mounds which are deep ditches dug to protect the troops. There were also Colony and French flags showing where there encampments were during the battle which won our independence from Britain.

The fellas with George Washington at Yorktown Visitor Center

Another impression...LOL

US and French flags showing their encampments

Hard to see, but trying to show the ditches and mounds.

Monday, we went to Williamsburg. I had been there probably 30 years ago. But it was not as I remembered. Either it has changed or I have a bad memory (which I do admit, is pretty bad). But it was kind of boring and pretty hokey. The tour of the Governor's Mansion was informative and interesting. But that was it. It may have been off season, but there were not any other tours or talks about the area. You just walk around these old houses and stores. There are a few demonstrations which were educational, but still seems something was lacking. We returned the rental car and had spaghetti for dinner.