Deep Creek Lock, Great Dismal Swamp Canal

is a shot of all the transient boats lined up and secured within the Deep Creek Lock.  It raised us up approximately 8 feet to the level of the Dismal Swamp.  I was way back in line but the elderly lock keeper got on the radio and called for the "little blue boat" to come on in cause there was just enough room.  There's that little word again! He was a great guy who walked around the lock and made sure everyone was properly secured before closing the locks.  He was assisted by his toy poodle buffy who ran around checking out every boat.  She declined to be photographed.  Emerging from the lock, the canal quickly assumed a more primitive and remote setting.  Lots of birds, bald cypress and the everpresent brown water. Mark E. Grant                                                          S/V NATIE M.  1969 C&C Corvette (Hull #62) Home port: TBD Formally: Breton Bay/Potomac River  410-212-8839 (cell/boat) "There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living" - Nelson Mandela