These folks definitely know how to take full advantage of a location. Their experience makes you want to go back and follow their tracks/wake in and around the Canal. The Dismal Swamp Canal Welcome Center is A SALTY SOUTHEAST CRUISERS’ NET SPONSOR!

We are 2012 Loopers in progress who just exited the Dismal Swamp this morning after having a great time through there! We did hit two deadheads in the center of the canal, fortunately while traveling at idle speed, just in case. We spent one night at the free dock at the Visitors Center. The next morning we rode our bikes along the adjacent bike path, then moved 6 more miles up the Canal and spent a second night tied up at a free Corps of Engineers dock (only 20 feet long, so we took up more than the entire dock but would have let others raft to us). After we tied up there, we took our
dinghy 3 miles up the Dismal Swamp Canal Feeder Ditch, right across from the dock, to Lake Drummond, which provides the water they use to keep the Swamp at constant level. It was a beautiful trip, and at the canal-lake junction, there is a tiny rail “trolley” you operate yourself to take your dinghy around the dam and into Lake Drummond, which was beautiful and no other boats were there. Great adventure!
Cathryn and Bob
aboard “Next to Me”,
42′ Jefferson Sundeck

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