More Deltaville

We got to Deltaville about Tuesday.   Now it's Sunday.

We meant to leave today, but the boat won't start.  We have two battery indicaters.  One says we have plenty of amps and the other is showing an error code.  So Tom is contacting previous owner and local person (on Sunday morning, yet) to see what gives.  Can't find enough info. on internet re this particular inverter/charger system.   Of course, he gets so frustrated.  Once we lick some problem another gets worse and demands attention.

We have fun while here.  Yesterday we went to the Farmers Market, held on their museum acreage on a branch of water near us.   We had breakfast inside their very large new community room, then roamed the attractions of the market.

Then we walked along a path through the woods along which sculptures were scattered.    No pictures of this though.  Then we walked their boardwalk and then to the dock where we had dinghyed to.  There we met Walt, a man who lives in a van who spends summers here in a campground and winters in Key West where re runs a community sailing school.   This day he was taking people around by golf cart and also showing people crabs.  When we met him, he was emptying the crab pool.  He said we could have them if we wanted, but we said we want to catch our own.   So I got to catch and release them using a small net on a handle.

As we started to get in our dinghy, people brought the boat below up to the dock, using long slender wooden oars.  It turns out they had been out for a demonstration in one of the museum's most prized possessions.  The boat is very similar to one that Capt. John Smith used when he mapped the whole Chesapeake Bay in two, two-month sessions.   These boats were once common.  They were used all over Europe and some were brought, cut in half in ships to America to be used along shores.  Apparently 14 men stayed in them, (not camping on shore) as they did the mapping trips.

When sailing, instead of keels, they put down a lee board to keep them from slipping sideways.

That evening, we dinghyed back to the park to hear one of their scheduled concerts.  Took this picture along the way and then one of Tom and Bob, our host, when we got there.  He had saved chairs under the pavilion.  Everyone brought their own drinks and foods and most brought chairs to sit in the lawn before the stage.   Was a lovely community event.   And the bands were good.    The second one was very dancable, but Tom told me he heard it was illegal to dance in Virginia.   So we didn't.

I see we won't be leaving today.   So Tom is going to take me over to the dock and I'll borrow one of Bob's bikes and explore some more.   Tom hopes to meet someone who will look at the battery system.