Vacation July 2005 - Chincoteague Island, Virginia Beach, Norfolk

Serving dinner on the Deck

Sunset

Next day - fishing from the deck

Sand sharks. Sharks are called dog-fish (South of a Mason-Dixon line).

This skate gave me 20 minutes of fight. (I almost thought I caught a tire on the bottom at one point.)

Posing for pics before releasing (I let all the fish go)

Next day - on our way to Virginia Beach and Norfolk. This picture is taken 5 minutes before our bike broke down in the MIDDLE or Chesapeake bay tunnel.(The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel - The 17-mile link on U.S. Rt. 13 between Virginia Beach/Norfolk and Virginia's Eastern Shore) They evacuate us from the tunnel very quick and at no cost and everybody was extremely nice. Cop took us inside the building on the service island next to tunnel where you can see all cameras and monitors in all tunnels and bridges and colossal equipment to control everything there... and gave us yellow pages. We found Harley dealer and they towed us from this bridge to about 20-30 miles into Virginia beach

VB Harley Dealer - waiting for their service team to find the problem with the bike (took them 3 hours to disassemble the bike, find the problem and put it all back together.... :)

Finally it was all over and we took a oceanfront hotel room. (view from the room.) We also spent a whole evening (9 to midnight) walking around in the town and listening to a live entertainment. Each block had 1 or 2 artists or music bands with a sign: "Entertainment is provided by city of Virginia Beach. Please no tipping." Unfortunately we didn't take our camera but it WAS GOOD! Definitely worth coming back for 1-2 days.

Next day we rode to Norfolk to see a battleship Wisconsin. (Jeff with battleship on the background)

Norfolk has a lot of mermaids everywhere on the streets. (Like NYC had painted cows at one point few years ago)

Wisconsin

Asked somebody to take our picture

and another picture

Jeff wanted to be a mermaid too

Somebody told us it is a Ruppert Murdock's private yacht (its HUGE!!!!!!!!)

lunch in the nice little restaurant in the Norfolk (Jeff making faces)

On a way back to home. This time we made through all tunnels ok :)

A little later we saw a sign - "Lot for sale". After driving through a VERY private driveway in the forest - we arrived to a breathtaking view to the march lands and a bay.... very unique piece of land. Later we found out it is 2 lots - 22 acres with 4 acres for building - total ~ $440,000.00 just for the land. Almost in the middle of nowhere :(((( Who knew they have such a high prices? We almost built our vacation home there in our dreams before we found a price :)))

Famous Chincoteague Island ponies. ( click here to find out why they are famous)

Last evening - visiting local Chincoteague Volunteer Firemen's Carnival

approaching main attraction ....

Here it is - famous oyster fritter (they are making them for 80 years - and Jeff had his first one about 40 years ago)

Sunset with seagulls at the deck later. (btw - we are buying a dry cat food and making our own "feed-the-seagull-on-the-fly" attraction.) You have to throw this food in the air and they are flying around and catching it like a trained professionals. The only problem - they are loud... and another problem - they can drop something ;) so better to not do it above your head....