Current
Position: 35° 12' 36" N 76° 35' 28" W
We
left New Bern at 8:15 this morning. Our
new friends from Lakewood and our next door Looper neighbors on “Pharm Life” saw
us off. Dana on “Pharm Life” took our
picture as we left the slip.
Notice how close Bob is able to get to bulkhead while backing out of the slip - and no backup camera! :) He's getting good!
The morning we left was beautiful, but we knew it was only going to get hotter. We had a nice breeze for a good portion of
the morning that kept us cool. Our big
question of the day is “How in the heck do these bugs manage to fly all the way
out into the middle of the river?”
Carpenter bees, wasps, horse flies, and dragon flies. To understand this question is to understand that a "river" here looks more like Puget Sound at its widest point.
The "sounds" here are more like inland seas. It's a different mind set. We are traveling the same general plan as
several fellow Loopers who we plan to catch up with in Deltaville, VA on
Thursday, if not before. “Lets Go” and
“Seaquest” are behind us today but ahead of us tomorrow night in marinas both
nights. “Satisfied Frog” passed us today
and is anchored somewhere ahead of us.
Since we have no cell coverage, we cannot contact them. It promises to be a nice evening. We are anchored in a nice bay with a sailboat
for company. Oops - the sailboat moved on - we are alone.
Anchored in Gale Creek
off the ICW
Current Position: 35° 40' 15" N 76° 5' 27" W
A nice quiet night - we stayed in Gale Creek over a week ago on our way to New Bern. Kind of nice to recognize something! Today was a LONGGGGG day as we traveled over 50 miles as well as stopping to fill up the fuel tanks. We are seeing new territory now but mostly in a long narrow cut today.
We went for over an hour in a straight line! (Bob is tightening the mousing wire on the anchor shackles.)
The water was very dark with tannin. This guy passed us. His hull is all white.
The cut was mostly wilderness with a few pockets of signs of people.
The trees here are tall and very straight
Hunting/fishing blinds are everywhere...
and look what we found along the shore without using a blind!
What looks to be a simple bridge crossing the cut...
Turns out to have an old bridge foundation beneath and...
is next to a beautiful home with two dogs playing in the water. You just never know what lies around the next bend.
Loving our life on the water!
Anchored at Point Lookout off Alligator River
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