Day 24

We pulled out of Tidewater Marina at 7am, have to make the Lock by 8:30 or have to wait until 11:30🙀 Once we go through, we will be on the Great Dismal Swamp.😬 This is what the police boats look like here. A machine gun on the bow!!!!🙈

It's still cold outside, 37º ,winds NNW at 10-15 mph. We have gone under 5 bridges already this AM snaking down the ICW; smooth as silk! Can only travel 6 mph until we get to Elizabeth City, NC.

It is almost 8:30 and we are waiting for the green light to enter Lock, along with 2 sailboats. One of which has the 3 guys, all named John on it. We met them a couple days ago, as they were stuck at Marina with us. Great guys! 
Took 30 minutes to get through Lock. Going up!

We are now in The Dismal Swamp with another hurdle just ahead.

DrawBridge

Not too dismal

The sail boat with the 3 Johns on it took our pic⛴ Their boat is called Journey.

This is Us

Interesting

Brackish water of Dismal Swamp

It is now12:30 and we have to float around until 1:30 when the next bridge goes UP and then into the next Lock; they synchronize them. It's nice to have other boats to talk to and  look out for each other👀 

🍤🦐Putting  shrimp on a hook and  fish for a while🐟🐡🐠🐢🐊🎣🎣🎣

Cyprus Tree

No fish but we are done with locks and bridges for the day. 

In the next pic you can see the water level we just left is higher than in the Lock as it lowers us to the next body of water, which is still the GDSC.

We started at the sunny top and finished at the dank, dark bottom.

Elizabeth City is only 18 miles now and will take us 3 more hours traveling at 6ish mph. Hope it doesn't get dark early??? 🐌🐌🐌🐌

We are loving this journey.💕

Thanks for following along 😻

5:00 and we are docked in  Elizabeth City, NC. right next to the 3 Johns in the sailboat;  we followed all day⛵🚤