We started the day fueling up at Bluewater Yachts. Sailboats are such a pain. You take 1/2 hour at the fuel pump trying to slowly feed in the diesel and only end up buying 50gals or less. Fortunately it was early in the morning and the dock boys weren't quite awake or in a hurry.
We crossed Hampton Roads on a nice beam reach, passed the Navy ships, and soon reached the quiet backwaters of the Dismal Swamp. We decided to make it a short and easy day and stayed at the first lock. Besides, the lockmaster is such a trip that it's hard to go on from there. Robert plays the conch horn, brings breakfast the next day, and keeps a running patter of stories the whole time.
We spent the night at Elizabeth's Dock which is between the lock and bridge and in the typical small world we find boating, one of the boats on the dock was the same boat we had spent the night with in the spring, on the same dock. Go figure.