Adventure in Virginia: Part 2
On Wednesday with fair weather Rachael and I navigated seven miles to the marina. We managed to get around the sandy peninsula of the Grandview nature preserve within a narrow channel marked by red and green visual aids. The markers we were following are connected to the bottom of the ocean by either pilings or poles. Because we were going into the bay, we kept the red buoys to our right and the green to our left. In this specific area, it was critical to stay in between the dredged channel. The water outside the channel is denoted as a “caution” area on the charts due to the water being a depth of less than one foot. Although the water looks deep, when we accidentally went around a red pole, rather than staying contained in the channel, our depth sounder read 2.4 feet – indeed a caution area. Dredging is essentially the process of removing silt and debris that accumulate over time due to sedimentation-the natural process of sediments washing downstream. Co...