Another beautiful day to set sail again. Our motto has become, "Make sail when the sun shines!"
We left Oriental, NC this morning at 6:30AM with only inches under our keel.......0.6 inches to be exact. Thank goodness there is no tide or much change in water level. We quickly made our way into the large Neuse River and it was just glorious. We used our sails off and on. The wind speed kept changing from light to about 10-12k out of the NW. We had the expanse of water to ourselves. There were a couple of fishing boats close to shore early on and then we tracked another sailboat for a bit. We were planning to travel only 50 miles today to Dowry Creek Marina in order to use their loaner car to provision. We arrived by 1:30 to fuel up and dock. This time Peter was able to reverse into the slip since there was no current and light winds....easy. We were also able to get off the boat without climbing over our bow and jumping to the dock! The drive to the grocery store was about 4 miles each way but it went through huge expanses of wheat and corn fields. Farming is alive and well in North Carolina. We attended a dock gathering at 5:30 and met 2 couples who are live aboards here. The marina is really nice and quiet in the middle of a small creek. There is nothing around but they have a pool, a courtesy car for shopping, and easy on...off the ICW.
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| Coinjock Marina |
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| Love the bottle garden at the pool. |
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| Cute little swallows who nest under the dock and are very friendly. They also love to eat mosquitoes!! |
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