Yay & Hooray! Left Block Island at 4:30 am on a clear and cold morning….. but the sunrise makes all the difference in the world! No wind, so motored for the next 34 hours(!!!). John mostly doesn’t sleep at night so I had to get tough at 11:30 pm and threaten that we will do NO MORE overnight passages unless he sleeps…….and he did. 👏
The night was clear, no moonlight, but a sky filled with stars and phosphorescence splashing off our bow wake. Beyond identifying tankers and fishing trawlers on radar, the night was magical. Sunrise has a way of alleviating a little anxiety so it is always a welcomed site as the sky begins to lighten. We watched schools of fish all the way to Cape May, but just before arriving, a humpback whale blew and showed off his tail fluke three times!! It was a lovely welcome to Cape May! We’re staying at South Jersey Marina for a few nights and will head up the Delaware River Saturday morning to ride the current northward.
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