Blogs from Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, North America - page 4

2008 Pacific Voyage January and a new moon are used as depictions of new beginnings. So it was that with a new moon occurring on 9 January 2008, Marnie and her crew of two, Tigs and Walter, left the dock in Rudee Inlet, Virginia Beach with Donna and Mason to wave farewell. Marnie, the 62 foot wooden ketch, was to return home having been commissioned and built in Auckland NZ on 15 April 1985 at the Salthouse Shipyard. The destination to be reached within 10 months of cruising through unexplored waters for those aboard. The first leg of the southward journey was anticipated to be a four day passage, with landfall in Spanish Wells, Bahamas. The first twenty four hours of the journey we experienced favourable winds from the south west as we rounded Cape Hatteras. ... read more

One of the things I've enjoyed the most since moving here was going parasailing. My son treated me to this as an early birthday gift, since the parasailing boats don't go out in the fall (my birthday is late October). I'd been telling myself for years that I would go up, but never did. My son saw to it that I went as high as they go. From 1200 feet in the air with a parachute above your head, you can see the boat that's towing you, but you can no longer hear it! At that height, I could clearly see the dividing line between the red tide that had formed, and the more natural blue-green water further out into the ocean. The city of Norfolk is 15 miles away, but was totally visible from that ... read more

We ended up spending one full day on the bus, two days at the hotel and the last day at the venue until 3 o'clock in the morning. If I hadn't briefly seen it pushing foam around, I might have thought Virginia Beach was just a place someone had attached the word "beach" to attract visitors. For that split second, it was really comforting. And then, we discovered that my hotel wasn't the beachfront that a large group of people were staying at, but another, twenty miles inland. The amphitheatre was interesting. Having worked at Starwood in Nashville for 4 years (with a seating capacity of just over 18,000), I had a hard time believing this amphitheatre seated a solid 20,000. The main entrance is settled between two big (decorative?) lakes with fountains in the centers. ... read more

Hello! We are living in Virginia Beach until such time as the military tells us to leave. I will journal our time spent here and what we see and do! We moved here from New Orleans, Louisiana in March, which is where I spent most of my life. It's truly sad what the city has become since Katrina....landmarks that I was familiar with flattened, destroyed. What a refreshing breath of air this city is. Clean, organized. I look forward to seeing it. ... read more

Sep 25, 2005 *City official name :Virginia Beach *Founded date : *Location :Virginia State *Elavation :? ft (? m) *Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²). *Facts :Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads area in the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The city is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the 39th largest city in the US, with a total population of 447,000. It is the third largest suburban city in the United States after Long Beach, California and Mesa, Arizona, and the fourth largest in North America. Like a few other cities in the US, Virginia Beach consists of an area more traditionally defined as a county, as the southern half... read more