Black Water Creek .1

Today was our last day in the Norfolk/Portsmouth area. One last look at all the naval ships and commercial ships here, and we started our trip back to the south. I also took some photos of the Navy’s Deperming Station. You can look that up, but it’s basically a facility to decrease or eliminate a remnant magnetic field. We poked into Scott’s Creek and the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River just to see what there was to see. Then we continued south on the Elizabeth River Southern Branch to the ICW’s Virginia Cut. This put us on the Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal and North Landing River. This afternoon we pulled into Black Water Creek to anchor for the night. We had one lock to go through today, the Great Bridge Lock. There is very little elevation change here as the lock is primarily to prevent much current in the Albermarle & Chesapeake Canal. After that, we had three low bridges that we went through, that opened on the hour and half hour. The Great Bridge Bridge, which was a Bascule type, and then two swing type bridges. 39 miles on a hot sunny day today. 92 is what my thermometer showed.Les mer