On Friday, Oct.15th we left the plush and posh marina for the very basic Dudley’s marina in Swansboro. It was a blustery day of 20 knots and even the waterway was somewhat choppy. Al chose here because of the location for us to make it to Wrightsville Beach the next day without a seventy mile day. The only spot for our size boat was at the end of the T-dock. We got it in with three dock hands preventing us from damaging the boat for which we were thankful. It a basic fishing marina with simplistic heads, showers and even a courtesy car all for .75/ft. but we really only needed the tie up for the night. I don’t think the seagulls liked sharing their dock with us because they stood their ground on the pilings so close that I got some great close-ups of them. At dusk we were joined on the dock by an Army Corp of Engineers dredge in back of us. Are you getting the picture of the type of marina this was? All in all, it was not a bad night because the wind died and so it was much quieter than anticipated until about 3:30am when something started banging the mast. I, being a light sleeper, asked Al to please fix it. Luckily I insisted because Al discovered it was the spinnaker pole hoist which came loose and the pole which takes almost two people to handle, could have come crashing down from its spot attached to the mast. We don’t want to think what could have happened then.
On our way to Wrightsville Beach we saw several odd sites that you can see in the pictures. First there was the Giraffe statue in someone’s yard. Stylish isn’t it? Then there was the boat that seemed like someone ran right up on land in the marsh. Lastly, there was the house painted “hot” pink (Maybe in Key West, but not in NC!) Since it was a long day getting here with four bridges that had to open, we decided to lay over a day in Wrightsville Beach and give our ears and body a rest from so much motoring.
We spent a nice day going to the beach with perfect beach weather and later invited Harriet and Skip from Moondance over for a drink and conversation. They are another couple who have been to the Bahamas before so filled us in on more information.
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| Wrightsville Beach, NC |
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| Leaving Calabash Creek, NC |
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