More Bad Bugs!

Memorial Day....and what a memory we have of BUGS!!  Our beautiful calm Anchorage that had those Michigan memories for us also now holds the number one spot in our do not EVER anchor here again! We were invaded during the night by thousands of what they call Non-biting Mosquitoes.  I went on the deck after dark to take the flag down and I heard this loud humming noise.  I immediately got Gary to investigate ( I am NOT a chicken, if I know what I'm dealing with) and he found it to be loud near the bell on the back deck and said it was bugs.  Ok, I can go to sleep now, it's just bugs.  Waking up Tuesday morning was a real delight.  Stepped out the back door and could not believe my eyes they were everywhere we had to be to get moving.  

To make a very long story short, sweeping didn't work, they swarmed up, vacuuming kind of worked but its a little vacuum and there were too many, then Gary tried the air compressor, they just laughed, and finally he tried the water technique, they just would not go away.  We fought them all the way across Albemarle sound into Elizabeth City, four hours of bug wars.

When we got to the FREE (don't ya just love it) dock in Elizabeth City the guys who helped us tie up said "aha, we know where you spent last night, happened to us the night before".  We then proceeded to spend 2 hours trying to wash all the bugs and bug remains off. What fun!

Elizabeth City was an excellent stop and very popular because of the FREE DOCKS....we did laundry, got a free shuttle to the grocery store, went to their excellent Museum Of the Albemarle  (again free, a method of payment we like a lot!) and had lunch at the deli.  

We met Gwen and Walter on Idle Time who are from North Carolina and have lived on their boat for 6 years.  They have spent the last 4 summers in the Chesapeake so they are a treasure trove of information on where to go.  I like getting first hand knowledge....makes for less surprises.

Tonight we are anchored off Goat Island with Idle time, headed for the Dismal Swamp Visitors Center tomorrow, again a FREE DOCK!

Bugs!!

More BUGS

Sunrise on Albemarle Sound

Bug Close up....looks like a mosquito but at least they didn't bite.

A waste of water, not the cleanup at the dock!

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The Above is a link to a very interesting article on the historyof this blimp and hangar at Weeksville, N.C.  It was originally a Naval Blimp Base for sub attacks in WWII.
 We had seen the blimp airborne over the Sound on Memorial Day.

Elizabeth City

Anchorage at Goat Island