23 May 2017 Tuesday. notes:
Last night we anchored at 2100 hours at Mile Zero (Hospital Point), after coming all the way across Albemerle Sound, and up the north Landing River, sailing through a T-Storm, waiting for the North Landing Bridge to open... Then getting stuck at the Centerville Bridge for over an hour (due to bridge restrictions for motor vehicle traffic)... then wait again at the Great Bridge bridge, and then the LOCK (quickest of all of these).

OH yes.. And the train bridge was also closed at Gillmorton Bridge complex, so again a wait.
We ran the lower Elizabeth River at night... (I can tell you that was one of our more 'stupid' moves...). It all worked out. We slowed down... Susan was outside some of the time (with superior night vision), and directed me a some points.. Away from objects in the water.

20/20 hindsight says "we should have stopped yesterday at the South Buck Island anchorage... And called it a day!!!
Mike and Bev anchored along the ICW during the T-storm; We tried but couldn't find a place where we were, without shallows, or snags. So, we kept traveling.

I should say a word or two about Belhaven NC, and the hospitality of the folks there. We (Mike, Bev, Susan and I) went to shore thinking we'd call an UBER ride for the grocery store(s). NOT !!! A contractor working on one of the downtown buildings said "UBER ??? Here ????"... that should have been a hint. But then he said.. ."Why don't you just take my JEEP Wrangler, there... She's a "beater", but she'll get you there. Just do me a favor, and put some gas in her...(then gave us the $20 he wanted in the tank).
So we did... I drove it... (Nice to drive a stick shift again)

the Jeep Wrangler was a little small for the four of us... And with groceries it would have been very FULL. BUT the store manager of the FOOD LION, ex-marine John Cooper, volunteered to drive us back to the dinghy dock.
I had to take Wrangler back (anyway), but that gave Susan and I the enter back seat for our groceries. (Bev and mike riding with John Cooper).
VERY NICE!!!
We also bought the contractor a little gift and left it under the pedals of the JEEP.

This morning I'm stowing away the charts for the ICW, and the Norfolk VA to Miami FL chart book. getting out the Chesapeake, and Delaware Bay Charts, and generally cleaning the boat... (Raining and yucky outside, and a poor day for travel. Mike and Bev are staying at Great Bridge VA, and we're here in Portsmouth.
More Later.