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| Shore chores kept Friday busy. We got 5 gal diesel as insurance that we would not need it, did a load of laundry, took the courtesy van to the grocery store, and visited the local hardware stores. Enjoyed walking probably 4-5 miles to get all of this done. We left the lights of Elizabeth City behind us before dawn on Saturday to catch more favorable winds across Albemarle Sound. |
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| Jay caught sunrise as we sailed south on the Pasquotank River past the US Coast Guard Air Station, the home of Coast Guard Aviation. The cool morning had us wearing our winter hats and coats. |
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| The US Navy Blimp Hangar looked pretty big. We'll have to visit on a Wed. next time and take a tour. We had a great sail across Albemarle Sound but then had to motor as winds came head on again. We wanted to get through the Alligator River Bridge before gusty winds could stop it from opening. We had a wet ride through choppy waters down the Alligator River to anchor for the night. |
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| You can see how we bring the computer out in the cockpit or put it up under the dodger to get a closer look at the charts as we travel along. So far we have found the charts to be pretty accurate at placing our boat on the waters. For larger sailing areas, we just leave the computer inside the cabin at the nav. station. |
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| Fog along the banks of the Alligator Pungo River Canal was interesting as we entered at Mile Marker 105 in the cool of Sunday morning. |
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| We have a new camera for this trip so we have been trying to practice with lens and different settings. We liked this reflection of the canal bank with the perfectly flat water surface. |
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| We must be getting farther south since we saw our first shrimp boats docked along the Goose Creek Canal. We sailed and motored on to anchor in Bonners Bay on the Bay River for the night. |
