We had a wonderful surprise when we got up. The blind mosquitoes were gone. Those insects controlled our activities for the past four days. We couldn't open the door after dark because dozens of those pests would come inside no matter how fast we closed it. Even during the day we were swarmed by them on the aft deck. We had to be careful not to breathe them in. It will take a whole day to wash all of the green stains off the boat.
We called Tim Smith from a pay phone and found out that Tim’s mom and dad, Helen and Dave, had driven down from Maryland. He offered to pick us up and take us back to his house. He meet us at the town dock at 1100. We visited and had lunch and I helped Tim work on his Dad’s dinghy outboard.
On the way back we stopped at Food Lion in Hertford and bought supplies for a few days. We were back on the boat by 1800. We found the house batteries depleted and the inverter alarm sounding. We had to run the generator for over five hours to bring the batteries back to nearly full charge.
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