We woke up feeling refreshed but realized there was a swarm of mayflies all over the boat. There must have been a million of them. We tried putting out a citronella candle but it did not seem to work. We bundled up (had to put long pants on!), sprayed bug spray on us, and braved the mayflies to go pull up the anchor. We were thrilled to learn from Martha that the insects were mayflies and not mosquitoes. We lived with those bugs for a few hours and they were not leaving. While we were travelling in the “ditch”, John washed the cockpit with the hose. It eliminated 80% of them; however, they stayed on the underneath part of the dodger. They were still there that evening.
We travelled 75 nautical miles that and we are at mile marker 50 on the ICW. We had only 50 more miles until Norfolk and then 150 miles up the bay. We crossed the Albemarle Sound with a SE winds and one foot waves. It was not bad for that body of water but it still seemed to take forever to cross. We pushed to get up to Elizabeth City and pass the bridge to be ready to enter the Dismal Swamp the following day. We were anchored just past the bridge in a cove with three other boats. We were looking forward to the Swamp the next day and the adventure it would surely bring.
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