Tomorrow is our last full day here in Virginia Beach. We haven't seen as much as we might have liked, due to weather problems and some closures; for example, we were going to eat lunch at the restaurant on Island One of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, but it is closed for renovations until summer of next year. Weather has been too rainy/gloomy to enjoy the Norfolk Botanical Gardens, and the roses would be mostly gone by this time anyway, I think.
We have visited Fort Story, which has a nice pair of lighthouses to photograph, it also is the place where the Virginia colonists first landed before proceeding on to Jamestown; and a statue to the French Admiral Comte de Grasse, who provided the reinforcements that turned the tide at Yorktown for George Washington during the Revolutionary War, is also at Fort Story:
New Cape Henry Lighthouse
Old Cape Henry Lighthouse
First Landing Monument
Comte de Grasse StatueJust down the beach from our hotel in Virginia Beach is this statue of King Neptune:
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Our hotel has an indoor pool and hot tub; the reports of whale sightings at same is unfortunate and rather mean-spirited:
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The Virginia Beach boardwalk and bike path,and even the beach, has been festooned with Christmas decorations, which will be turned on this Friday evening; I'll try to get some photos of them.
Tomorrow we'll be trying to go to Colonial Williamsburg, weather permitting.