Lower Chesapeake, continued...

Deltaville, VA
Irvington, VA
Windmill Point, VA
​Tangier Island, VA

Deltaville is a unique old fishing town with about a dozen marinas (mostly of which are stuck in time from the 1960's or 70's) and a few eating establishments. Due to covid most restaurants were not open so we cooked on the boat each for our 2 night stay.. We were able to use the marina pickup to go to West Marine and get seafood from their local market. Grilled a nice anniversary seafood dinner at the marina.
Next stop was just up the creek where we spent a couple night of quiet and beautiful anchorage in Irvington where we anchored by the well known beautiful resort Tides Inn,

We  met up with Leslie and Glen Carter (related by our son-in-law) and spent a couple of lovely days fishing the Chesapeake Bay out of Windmill Point and visiting Tangier Island.  

Tangier Island
One of the most unique places in the Chesapeake Bay area, the island has a dwindling population of 'waterman' who historically depended on crabbing the local blue crabs for a living.  Today tourism is one of the main industries and the  locals meet you in their golf carts as you park your boat or get off a ferry and bring you on a tour, to eat and shop. There are still crabbing boats but there many of the boats and processing operations are abandoned.  
The locals have a distinctive Elizabethan dialect developed on the island and attributed to the isolation from the mainland and most of the locals have families that have been there for generations.  We were met at the Parks Marina by Mr. Parks, an 80 some year old whose family has owned and operated many of the local businesses for a generations. 
This island is disappearing slowly into the bay. Since the mid 1800's the island's landmass has been reduced by 67% and it is expected that the remaining land will be lost in the next 50 years and the town/island will likely need to be abandoned.