Boat???????!!!!!!

It’s 1617 and I now sit in Greg’s Carolina Skiff waiting on him to return with a battery or something. I say return because the boat battery was dead when we put the boat in the water, so he went home to get a new battery. After his return, that new battery ended up being the battery out of my car. Now I’ll have the privilege of resetting the various electronics in my car—I guess its another one that I’ve taken for the team.

It’s now about 5 minutes later and we are cast netting. I think we caught all of 4 or 5 gudgeon and that was it. We meandered into a small inlet and cast-netted there, but we didn’t catch much—the water was too shallow and the net wasn’t closing fully. Yours truly had the privilege of paddling us out of the inlet, backwards, I might add. WE are now making a trip out through Bennetts Creek out into the Nansemond River with a possible short excursion into the bay (Chesapeake Bay).

So far I have seen 2 white egrets and 1 blue heron. They are both very beautiful animals. The 2 egret were standing in the water, fishing, if you will. The blue heron was sitting in a tree and took flight when we got close to it.

Greg is driving, and didn’t want to listen to me about the channel markers. We are headed outbound and he wanted to take the green markers on our port side. It took Marcus and me both trying to get his attention before he finally turned.

I just saw another blue heron sitting on the shore ‘fishing.’ Such majestic and graceful animals.
1700 and we are stopped again and Marcus is cast-netting. I recommended that we stop at Bennetts Creek Seafood Restaurant and get something to drink, but Greg thinks we are too muddy. I posted that we get it to go; I’m still waiting on an answer. We’ll see :) The answer came as No. Marcus threw the cast net and caught a shrimp here in the creek. It is a tidal creek, but I didn’t think shrimp came up this far—but I guess the tide IS coming in.
1709 we’re back underway. The engine is bogging down for some reason so we’re headed back in. At least I’ll get something to drink now.