I returned to Hampton from my Chickahominy River earlier than planned due to mail and weather. I ran up the river under power yesterday, anchored, and rowed ashore to look around. The dam between the river and the lake is undergoing major reconstruction. The lady at the store didn't know if the hand operated lock that used to let boats up to 24 feet pass in and out of the lake was included in the project. She said that, if it wasn't, there were going to be "a lot of dam pissed off people".
I was able to sail most of the way back down the river which was so pleasant that I used most of it up. It was a long and surprisingly raw and cold run back down Hampton leaving early this morning to catch the best of the current and arrive before the wind.
Full album is on Facebook at this link (Public link: you don't need to be signed up for Facebook.)
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4014615304214.1073741825.1846284215&type=1&l=cb4a4d53e2
And a few of the better shots are below.
The last picture is something I have never seen, a heron rookery. Each clump in the trees is a next. In Maine, these nesting sites are all hidden in the middles of the least accessible islands. It's quite a site in real life as large as these birds are.
I was able to sail most of the way back down the river which was so pleasant that I used most of it up. It was a long and surprisingly raw and cold run back down Hampton leaving early this morning to catch the best of the current and arrive before the wind.
Full album is on Facebook at this link (Public link: you don't need to be signed up for Facebook.)
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4014615304214.1073741825.1846284215&type=1&l=cb4a4d53e2
And a few of the better shots are below.
The last picture is something I have never seen, a heron rookery. Each clump in the trees is a next. In Maine, these nesting sites are all hidden in the middles of the least accessible islands. It's quite a site in real life as large as these birds are.