Today was the drive north.
I started with the Portsmouth Lightship next to the hotel before taking the drive north.
I then headed north and drove the 17 mile Chesapeake Bay Tunnel-Bridge. That is correct, it is a tunnel and a bridge. It goes over the water for most of the trip across but a couple of times it goes underwater. I was then on the Virginia peninsula and went to the Virginia National Wildlife Refuge
to see Cape Charles Lighthouse in the distance in Smith Island.
To get to the observation desk, I took the butterfly trail.
While on the trail I saw a small turtle.
On to the next lighthouse which was in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. I paid to get in and then found out that the trail to Assateague Lighthouse was closed which really sucked. So I got to see only part of it over the trees. I did get some good pictures in the Refuge. It reminded me of Sequoia with the meadows.
Then up to Maryland.
Then to Delaware
to see Fenwick Island Lighthouse.
Then went up to Cape Henlopen and put my feet into the Atlantic Ocean. It was cold like the Pacific. Much nicer than the Gulf of Mexico bathwater. Then the long drive back to the Hotel in Virginia.
