Well, I did say we had stopped! One week later we are still here in Deltaville and just having the best time. It is going to be very hard to drag ourselves away. Our days have been very busy and time has just flown by (as usual). We had an extremely hot weekend with temps in the 90's. Thankfully things cooled down a little on Monday to a balmy 78 degrees. Jackson Creek has just turned out to be the best place to hang out for a while. First of all we met a delightful Englishman, living aboard his small catamaran "Wind in the Willows". Michael is a true gentleman who spends his summers here and sails to the Bahamas each Winter. We are full of admiration for him as he does this alone and is getting on a bit in years. Michael has a van here and kindly took us off to get our propane tanks filled which was great as we haven't had chance to do this since Marathon, FL. On Saturday we walked over to the Maritime Museum where there was a Pirate Festival! This was a lot of fun with Sea Shanties, Pirate Olympics and canon firing. Once again the folks who do these re-enactments are just amazing and very informative. Then we were invited to happy hour ashore at one of the lovely homes on the banks of the creek. Bill and Mary were our gracious hosts and we met some of our fellow anchorage mates. We were delighted to be asked back to Bill and Mary's Pier House on Sunday for Happy Hour again. This time we got to spend more time with Bill and Mary and very much enjoyed their company. We also met their delightful neighbors Bob and Debbie. Unfortunately our revelry was cut short by a vicious squall that caused one of the boats in the anchorage to drag (without the owners aboard), so Bill, Bob and Tom rushed out in Bob's boat to rescue the errant vessel - they were quite the heroes! After that excitement we returned to Osprey and endured several close bolts of lightening and high winds. Afterwards we wondered why we seemed so close to the boat next to us. When we turned the chart plotter on the next morning we could see that we had, in fact, dragged about 100 feet! Needless to say we reanchored in short order. We took advantage of the slightly cooler days to give Osprey a good clean. After two solid days of waxing and polishing she looks lovely. We have been keeping a close eye on the weather and it looks as though we may be able to leave Norfolk sometime this weekend. We should get at least as far as NJ and possibly even to NY but we shall see.