The Dismal Swamp Canal

While strikingly beautiful and unlike anywhere else we have been, you have the Dismal Swamp Canal to thank for the flurry of recent posts… Probably not the best time to transit when temps are in the high 90’s (F, 36C) and every humidity-loving, human-eating bug is out and about; gave me the opportunity to hide out behind screens. 😜

The canal starts out benignly enough… like the Erie Canal or some of the rivers we have traveled.
Then a taste of things to come…
… duckweed!
Truly a swamp now… a narrow path through dead-still water with navigation hazards above and below.

And critters hitching a ride.

In the middle of the canal is the Visitor Center dock. The canal is bounded by locks which run on a 3 hour schedule and we would not have made the exit lock so we spent the night here. We also ran into our Lower Mississippi “buddy boat”.
The Dismal Swamp State Park
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