Monday, July 9, 2007

Wednesday, July 4, 2007 - Park's Marina, Tangier Island, VA

We went for a long walk around the Island after breakfast. As I said, Main Street is narrow but the branching streets, or lanes, are even narrower, barely the width of one golf cart. The houses are close together and most have the front fenced to the edge of the lanes giving them the appearance of cattle chutes. Many of the homes have their relatives buried in their front yard. Cemeteries are scattered randomly about town.

It was interesting setting on the aft deck and watching all the boating activity; large crab boats coming to the dock to buy menhaden to bait their crab traps or dropping off their catch, ferry boats loading or dropping off passengers and supplies, or islanders just using their boats to get around town.

The wind blew hard from the south southwest all day and NOAA was predicting more of the same for tomorrow. We decided to stay another day and wait for the wind to subside.

We sat on the forward deck and watched the Tangier Island fireworks. It was a good show for such a small village.

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