Happy All Hallows Eve to You.

This pretty much looks like the fool smiles on our faces of late.

We are tied up at Vinings Landing Marina in Little Creek Inlet at the far end of Norfolk City, VA. The U.S. Naval Amphibious Base reluctantly shares this precious spot with a few marinas. It is a jewel for those of us who need to leave the Chesapeake to go around Cape Hatteras......which is what we intend to do before daybreak tomorrow morning. This inlet puts us right at the mouth of the Chesapeake - the last jumping off point before you round Cape Henry then the Big H.

Sooooooooo.....today is setting up day (see Overnighters is past blog) for the voyage which will take 2 days with a night in between. We are fine tuning our departure time as weather forecasts come in. We are waiting for the current Small Craft Advisory to run itself out (by suppertime) then calm itself enough for us to join the expected North winds flowing south while avoiding the forces of the Gulf Stream flowing north.

Alex is doing the usual boat things to get ready.......thank the powers above for that. I do details and, of course, food with stashes of snacks (Alex is now in on the snack stashing so I'm running out of hiding places.....).

Promise to get some more pictures in the gallery when we get settled in Beaufort, NC - our port of entry after Cape Hatteras.

Send good wind vibes please (gentle North or West ones, if you don't mind).

Talk to you on the other side......of Hatteras, that is....