Day 18...Morehead City Yacht Basin to Slade Creek

NO INTERNET YESTERDAY AND MOST OF TODAY

MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2012

     After our excellent meal, we slept very well tied up to the dock last night.  We knew today’s trip would be a long one if we made it all the way to our projected destination. 

     My photo collection for the day was going to be cranes.  This was my first picture of the day.  What Gary forgot to remind me was that we were going to go across many, many, many miles of open water.  That means that this crane is the one and only addition to the collection for the day.

     Be prepared for water pictures and more water pictures.  Referencing my newly acquired Coastal Boating Guide for North Carolina, I can tell you that while traveling the Intracoastal today we were in the Newport River, Adams Creek, the Neuse River, the edge of Pamlico Sound, the Bay River, Smith’s Creek, the Pamlico River and the Pungo River to Slade Creek, our anchorage for the night.  
     Sometimes the land was close,

     












      But most of the time it was far away on the horizon.

     We did see two tugs today.  The first one was pushing a big barge.  The next one was pulling a barge with some sort of structure on it.  We didn’t know what the structure was but it had an interesting shape.  It had a whole row of tires down each side.  We could do that with golf cart tires like this little tug that I found on line.

     We have been trying to call Steve’s MEMORY MAKER (our former sailboat) on the marine radio all day.  After we anchored, Gary tried again.  Steve answered and we found out that he had just passed us and was going to anchor about 5 miles away.  We didn’t see each other because we were not in sight of the Intracoastal since we were up the creek.  He is traveling faster than we are so he won’t be near for long.  We hope he enjoys the Hunter as much as we did for the 15 years that we owned it.  We wish him fair winds and following seas.

     Here is a photo of the anchorage with absolutely no one around.  This is just the way we like it.

     We traveled for 9 hours and 23 minutes and covered 63 miles.  The time on the chartplotter went kafluee (such a technical term) today so I calculated the time on my own.  I do know how to subtract.