Our third and last day at River Dunes Marina, I
took a walk with Maryann from Cavu and got this shot of the
marina from across the basin. Like I said it was a beautiful spot.
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| River Dunes- a great spot to stop! |
With it still a bit cold, I decided to
make chili and corn muffins for dinner and had Ron and Maryann
over for a game of Sequence and dinner.
The next morning, out early once again
heading to the Beaufort, NC area. Once we got out, Al realized that
our chart plotter had no boat position. He pulled out our computer
for a second option for navigation and could not get a position there
either. Lastly, he got my Ipad and pulled up the Garmin Blue charts
on it, and finally we had a boat postion on it. We did have paper
charts and parallels ready just in case we had to resort to
navigating the “old way!” Then I steered while Al was trying to
figure out the problem. This happened to us on the last trip and it
was the antenna. However, we just got a brand new antenna this
summer. He checked the wire connections and such and finally just
hit the antenna and the boat position was back. Not a real
comfortable feeling!
On motoring days people ask me what do
I do all day? I read, do crossword puzzles, work on the blog,
download pictures, tend my little herb garden
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| Basil, mint, parsley,rosemary and thyme. |
and do my rug hooking.
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| The background is a deep purple. |
I am working on a very
traditional floral which will be a table runner or
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| Here I am cutting the wool into thin strips with a wool cutter. |
something to lay
across the bottom of our bed. It is my first time doing fine shading
with eight value swatches. I dyed all the wool for this project at
home before I went to a 4 day workshop to learn how to do fine
shading. I am quite pleased with it so far. Unfortunately,
arthritis in my left hand limits how much I can do, but it will get
done eventually.
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| A close up of "Rapture Plus Four" the name of the pattern. |
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| Waterfront of Moorehead City near Beaufort,NC |
We past through the industrial area of
Moorehead City near Beaufort and reached Cape Lookout mid afternoon after passing this dredge in the channel going out there.
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| Don't want to tangle with this dredge in the channel! |
Cape Lookout is such a
pretty spot with the lighthouse and beaches on both sides of us.
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| Cape Lookout, NC |
Fishermen came and put out a net nearby
where we were anchored. The pelicans were waiting for dinner as you
can see. It was fun watching them fly in and plop in the water and
take off again.
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| Pelicans waiting for a treat! |
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| The fishermen certainly got the action going with the pelicans. |
This is a staging area for boats to go
out in the ocean. That is what we did the next morning, leaving at
4am in the dark. All you have to do is go around two or three buoys
and your out. It is neat to see dawn while you are on the ocean.
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| Dawn breaking while sailing in the ocean. |
We were able to sail about half of the
trip . Al decided to put his rod out and troll.
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| Al pulling in a fish. |
He actually caught
something which made for some excitement for the day.
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| Can you see his mouth and eyes? |
Unfortunately,
we looked up what kind of fish it was an it looked like a Frigate
Mackerel, which was indicated as poor eating, so back in the water he
went.
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| 20" Frigate Mackerel-poor eating but gave us some fun! |
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| Wrightsville Beach, NC |
We reached Wrightsville Beach,
definitely a beach town, about 5PM and anchored up near the bridge.
We ate dinner and went to bed. It was a long day!
The next day we met up with Kris and
Craig on Tilt and walked to
Harris Teeter grocery for some supplies and the exercise. Then we
went into have lunch together at a restaurant called South Beach
which was very good. It was a great sunny warm day for a walk on the
beach as well. Later we had happy hour on our boat with Tilt
and Laurie and Jim from Kismet who
came in from the ocean that afternoon.
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| Dusk at anchor in Wrightsville Beach. |
We had a beautiful old motor yacht
anchor in back of us which gave us a pretty view to end the day.
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| This is the pretty motor yacht in the morning. Nice! |
On to South Carolina for our next happenings. They had bad flooding from the hurricane so we don't know what to expect. Stay tuned!
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