We saw some of Norfolk, VA today by just walking around the downtown area within a mile or so of the marina.

I said Norfolk is a Navy town........ well here's a view down one of the main city streets. That's the battleship Wisconsin in the bay at the end of the street. It is part of the Nauticus Maritime Museum that we visited. The museum itself was very school field trip oriented with lots of hands-on displays and learning stations. It was also, appropriately, full of school kids on field trips. Not much fun for adults, but great for kids and some of the displays were still interesting, like the hands-on "how a sextant works" for navigating.

The battleship Wisconsin is huge and imposing, but since we had spent a day visiting the battleship Alabama in Mobile, we didn't go through it.

Then we visited the Chrysler Art Museum, which was excellent. No sense posting pictures of art here, but they had excellent paintings, including number of paintings by the masters, a very large and interesting collection of art glass (I liked the Tiffany vases and lamps), sculptures from the antiquities through today and a really excellent American sculpture exhibit. The picture above is an 1868 sculpture in marble by James Meade entitled "The Soldier Returns Home". It is beautifully executed and poignant in the expressions of the father and daughter.

Tomorrow, we'll start up the Chesapeake Bay.