Kayak Virginia Beach Information Net

For all you Kayak Fishermen out there, there is a new resource available, the Pirates Of Lynnhaven whose purpose is to support and promote the sport of kayak fishing on the lower Virginia Coast. Nice looking site, with local fishing information…

I decided to take kayakvb.info and kayakvb.net and consolidate them.  Kayakvb.net was essentially a mirror of kayakvb.com I was going to do some live development there, but thought better of that.

The content at kayakvb.com will stil be the same, no changes there.

Typical of the City of Virginia Beach, and the A-HOLE developers, who won’t be happy until every square foot of this town is covered in concrete. A couple of weeks ago I was in the Pungo Ferry Road area doing other things, and I saw this sign across the river.

The sign says for lease, but it is actually for sale…

Just what we need, more ugly overpriced condo’s adjoining relatively undisturbed areas.

I can just imagine that someone has something as ugly as those ugly condo’s at Sandbridge.

I was wondering what the actual status of the land there was, so I did a little research, and found some interesting things…

First of all whomever is selling it is going to make one hell of a profit, because according to the city, this parcel last sold in July of 2007 for $61,000 and is now on the market for $1,080,000 is a roughly $1,019,000 profit. Nice turn around in just about 6 months, by anyone’s standard.

I wonder what could have changed to cause such an escalation in value, where in the previous 8 years, the value of that same land went from $30k to $61k.

Here is an excerpt from the realtor’s flyer…

Here is the Parcel info from the City Of Virginia Beach…

Here is the sales Disclosure from the City Of Virginia Beach…

And here is the Value History from the City Of Virginia Beach…

All the above information is available on the City Of Virginia Beach Web site, emapping and GPIN’s are cool…

Looking at the adjoining parcels, it is interesting to see that they are owned bay the State of Virginia, or the Nature Conservancy, and both are preserves.

A map for reference

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I was going through the logs on my primary site KayakVB
and noticed a few inbound links from a site I haven’t seen in the logs before, a blog site called Get Out and Do Something. I like to see where my traffic is coming from, and when I see a nice site that has similar focus, I add it to my list of sites…

Get Out and Do Something, has a very similar theme as KayakVB, but the author also enjoys biking and camping in the area as well.

So take a  look, nice pictures and information on the Hampton Roads area, as well as North Carolina.

Well I’ve done it again, and pretty much blew this of for a month…

The last month has been pretty hectic for me, as I am getting ready to change jobs for the first time in a very long time, and hopefully I will be able to dedicate more time on the water, but I doubt it…

I was only able to get on the water twice in the month of August, and neither of those were very long trips. September will be very busy for me, but there are some opportunities for me to possibly do some trips on the Eastern Shore, Philadelphia, as well as Northern Virginia, because I will be traveling to those locations on a regular basis over the next few months.

I did get back out to the Franklin area on Labor Day, and got a few more miles on the Blackwater river, as well as getting information on 2 new launch sites on the return visit. I will be adding those launch sites to  Kayak Virginia Beach Dot Com in the next couple of days.

The other thing is that football season starts up next week, so that takes Sunday afternoon out of the equation, but Sunday mornings are still good for a short trip