From Great Bridge we motored north to Norfolk, or more correctly, Portsmouth over the river from Norfolk, where we berthed in the free town dock. Other Aust yachts Malua and Eye Candy also there.
We were in time to attend the Memorial Day parade.
Over the river in Norfolk we visited the wonderful museum which included the retired battleship Wisconson
Then to Yorktown where the French [and the rebellious Americans] defeated the Brits.
This memorial celebrates the battle and honours the French and American dead.
Yorktown is purely a tourist town with no real heart.
It was hot and we were with Malua and Eye Candy
Williamsburg where they get up in period costume .
On to Washington DC where we anchored within sight of the Washington Memorial and easy walking distance from the White House.
Next door was a great seafood market.
The Vietnam and Korean Memorials were remarkably moving.
This museum slipped into the sequence somehow.
We rode our ageing though trusty folding bikes to Arlington and the Marines Memorial.
Smithsonion
We thought this market along the closed-off Pensylvania Ave was a craft market until it dawned that all the stalls were promoting the alternative persuasion. It was the poofters street party.
Up the Chesapeake we sailed, bound now for New York.
Solomons Island was a refreshing stop!
From here the blog editor got it all awry; but this was at Cape May at the south end of the Delaware Rive after transitting a canal between the Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware River.
The Princess beside a preserved lobster caught in 1985. The waters of the coast and bays here are so prolific as to be amazing.
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Cape May scene
Approaching NYC
We rode our trusty bikes around the town, here Central Park.
The Rhinestone Cowboy at Times Square
Some locals criticised us for allowing our bikes to be so rusty. Given that we found them in a rubbish bin in Greece about four years ago that is not so bad! Here in Times Sq. NYC is remarkably bicycle friendly and we were able to ride everywhere with safety in seperate bike lanes.
We were anchored across the Hudson River from Manhattan.
Seaport tourist district
9/11 Memorial
NY Stock Exchange
We were anchored just in behind her on the left.
Ellis Is
Later we shifted anchorage to 79th ST
We were there on a big full moon and the king tides were astonishing.
The current ran past at 4 kts and we had to move on.
Empire State building as we sailed downstream from 79th ST.
Annapolis, in the Chesapeake.
