Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Full day to Southport

We had a full day today, 62.7 miles.  We are currently in Southport NC, downriver from Wilmington on the Cape Fear River.  It is interesting, several weeks ago we had an appointment in Wilmington and it was a two hour drive.  We come here by boat and it takes three days.  We had the anchor up at 7:00 am and arrived about 4:30.  Got lucky at the first bridge, we were late but he opened late to let all of us through instead of making us wait for the next opening an hour later.  The next two we made early and had to wait.  I say "let all of us" because there were four of us moving together.  We get strung out a bit but come back together at the bridges.  I forgot to mention that we started yesterday with dolphins joining us.  Well, there were several pods with us today also.  Fun to watch but impossible to  photograph.  I get a lot of pictures where a dolphin was after it dives.  Did I mention that it rained?  Did I mention that it was cold?  Well both are true.  It rained most of the day off and on, some of it so hard we couldn't see the boat in front of us.  Cold, you bet.  It was in the 40's with gusty winds into the 20+ knot range.  About the time we pulled into the Cape Fear River the clouds started breaking up.  The real excitement was the lightning, very close and very loud.  A bit unnerving when you are under an aluminum pole sticking 50 feet in the air.  The weather offshore is still looking bad so we will be continuing on the ICW.  Got this tip from Galan, you can follow our progress by going to www.vesselfinder.com and searching for Hiflite.  It tracks us using our AIS signal.

Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving and if you are traveling, be careful.


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