One day without WiFi. yikes.
We left River Dunes marina which is north of Oriental NC and I lost all ATT signals. This part of the ICW traverses the Alligator River, Pungo River and the canal that connects them, across the Albemarle Sound and over to the Carolina Cut. We are resting at the Coinjock Marina where the restaurant is famous for its Prime Rib.
There is a point where there is nothing around but water and a faint shadow of land on the horizon. It is hard to believe we are in a river. This is also the time for the exodus south, more than a dozen boats have passed us, some shouting that we are going the wrong way.
We have been doing over 50 NM each day, but last night we ran out of light and had not arrived at a suitable anchorage. We just dropped the hook in the canal, There was NO ONE around. The quite was disconcerting, there wasn't the sound of water running past our haul, birds, nothing. Then the planes. For about an hour we had some military planes flying close over head.... then the quite.
This morning was cool with a good wind up and again miles of river water. We decided not to try the Dismal Swamp.... we have bumped bottom enough and I could not find any information as to what they dredged the canal to.
Tomorrow we should finally be in Norfolk... or more accurately Portsmouth. We are staying at a Marina there, weekly rate, less expensive. We plan on staying until around the 20th ..... but then
we live on a boat.
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| Finished this scarf.. |
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| leaving River Dunes |
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| old log cabin on shore |
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| sunset in the Alligator River / Pungo River Canal |
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| Full moon .... quite, spooky |
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| Alligator River Marina... where we spent hurricane Sandy |
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