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20080727

fantastic day for a birthdate! thank you all for all the thoughtful birthday greetings! warms a guy's heart, that's for sure!
this morning we navigated cricket out of sarah creek, and crossed the york river to the yorktown dock moorings. to our starboard side was the large, double swing bridge that spans the river. moorings are big, red and white balls floating on the water off from the shore a little ways with a very strong (hopefully) tether going to the bottom of the water attached to a very strong (hopefully) and heavy hunk of concrete to keep it there. you tie your very heavy boat to it and it works like a super-anchor, only you don't have to worry about it holding, even in the hugest winds AND you don't have to clean the mud of the chain when it's time to leave! sweet! typically you pay a small fee to use moorings. so we set off to pay the dockmaster, and explore the shores.
jiminny took us to the city dock, located past a park on the river, the victory monument (revolutionary war victory), and a bunch of public beaches filled with summer bathers. we saw a largish, grey navel vessel go by, and the bridge open for her, and a three masted schooner tooling about the dock and river. a wonderously strange mixture of new and old.
dockmaster
back to cricket
helping our neighbors
trolly and driver
walking main
carrot tree
antique store
storm under the bridge
owen as captain
lovely evening
biggest birthday candle