Tangier Island, VA., July 27th, 2009

Ok, so I told you we got beat up yesterday on the way to the Corinthian Yacht Club.
And as if that wasn't enough........ the trip down and over to Tangier Island was almost a re-do.
Yes, I checked the weather, seas and all that stuff. There was not supposed to be anything significant until later in the afternoon, with afternoon thundershowers. So we proceeded to go to Tangier Island.

We left Corinthian YC and came back out of the Potomac River and started with 1' to 2' seas, 15 - 20 knot winds out of the south.
And by the time we got to deeper water of 60' to 80' or so, the seas had increased to 2' to 3'.
We were heading south-east, and the wind and seas were heading north. Boaters know what that means......... It means we were going against the wind, tide and waves.
A repeat of the ups and downs of yesterday.
And GOD thought he would add a little more adventure to the trip and throw in some 4 footers in there. It gets a little scary pounding around out there with no land in real sight.
2 days in a row and it also gets rather old.
But we made it, all safe and sound.

This is the only marina on Tangier Island. It is called "Parks Marina".
Here is a picture of the office, the slips and piers are to the left.

Here is the owner, Mr. Milton Parks. He is very friendly and offered to show us the town and took us for a tour ride in his golf cart. About a half an hour does it all!
He took a liking to us (I think he liked Dawn Better?) so I took his picture with her.

Milton, where exactly is your right arm?????
We were hungry so he dropped us off on the main drag where the restaurants are.
All we wanted was a light lunch at this time so we could go out for dinner later, but that didn't work out.
So we ate at the "Fisherman's Corner" at this time. I had a softcrab sandwhich of course. It was good, they put 2 softcrabs on it. A lady visitor at the next table saw me, looked at me and then her friends and said: "are you eating one of those softcrabs.......?" I said yep, and showed her the crab legs hanging out of the bread. She looked at me like I was crazy..............

Another restaurant, across the street (The Channel Marker) that we wanted to eat at but that didn't work out.

After lunch, we went back to the boat to rest a spell and all of a sudden, another storm came up.
The afternoon thunderstorm. But the forcast had changed and had increased a bit.
Dawn and I went inside the boat and heard the storm building.
Dawn got brave and opened the cabin door to peek outside.
The damn rain was raining sideways. There was 60 knot winds, small craft advisory, severe thunderstorm warnings, etc., etc.
I was scared............ he, he, he.
But thank goodness we were in port and not out in the seas....

It continued to rain for hours........ we watched a movie, (Thanks Jake and Lindsey!) then it stopped..... and the sun came out.
We never did make it out of the boat before 7 pm to get dinner. So Dawn heated up some Ham with Mac and Cheeze....... Hmmm, mmmmm, good.

Dawn with our boat at the pier.

Dawn, wishing I wasn't taking these pictures.

But the sun was now out and was just right.

And......, the sunset after the storm.

I liked this one!

This one is nice too.

All in all, we liked Tangier Island. Everyone is nice and friendly and we had a good time dispite the storm. We even toured the musium which is rather interesting.