deltaville

we arrived deltaville on a sunday and thought that we would stay a few days just to pick up mail, get cleaned up, do a few boat projects, move things to and from the storage unit - that sort of thing - but we ended up staying a whole week because tom wanted to help a friend move his sailboat from deltaville to the corrotoman river and that didn't happen until the next saturday.  the other thing was that tom thought it would be nice to get caught up with the neighbors as well since our plan was to leave again for the northern Bay and not return until six weeks later.  well, i just have to say that tom's social life for us adversely affected my work life - remember i still work???  i'd be up all night trying to catch up with the work i missed and then awake again early the next morning for more of the same.  don't get me wrong - i LOVED seeing all of our friends but there simply aren't enough hours in the day! 

i wondered about my two ducks and it kind of made me sad not to see them.  there was one drake swimming around our area of the marina but quite frankly, i can't tell one duck from the other so i wasn't sure if it was "my" duck.  however, on friday evening, five days after our return to deltaville, the drake showed up on the dock behind TADHANA and demanded to be fed - obviously, he was "my" duck, at least he thought so!  the next morning, he showed up again with my little brown hen, my gentle little mama duck who only chirps and never quacks like her boyfriend.  they must have some kind of communication system - did he tell her that i was back?  how did he tell her?  in any case, i was really happy to see her but there were no ducklings in tow so i guess that didn't happen this year either.  they hung out with us the whole weekend and people who walked by were amused by the bowls and at how unafraid they were of both us and consuelo.  i hated to leave her again but i guess that is just the way it is.

sunday morning was our usual pancakes and bacon breakfast and then we got ready to leave for little bay.  tom's plan was to do some deep sea diving over there and check our running gear - he said we lost some RPMs and that it's been a bad year so far for growth so best to check.  the weather is good so it will be nice to be back at our lovely little bay - on a sunday when everyone will be leaving.  it's great to be underway again :) 

obligatory sunset pics from slip G-30 at regatta point marina, our home for the last two years.