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Oriental, NC
27 November 2012 | Oriental Town Dock, Oriental NC
Donna
We had heard that Oriental was a must stop location. The town is very welcoming to cruisers and they have a free town dock area that fits a couple of boats. We are communicating via email with another boat that is a couple of days ahead of us and they loved their time there.
It was probably our coldest day yet, which is really saying something because it’s been very cold! Besides the cold though, we had a good trip. We left the anchorage at Pungo Creek kind of late. We stayed and checked in with the two cruisers nets on the Single Sideband radio. Cruisers all over the east coast and the Bahamas check in with their locations. Usually we forget to go on the nets or we are already underway by the time they are on. Bill announced that we had woken up to 30 degree temperatures that morning. In fact, the temperature in our cabin was only one degree warmer than our refrigerator! Because we were on a different schedule than most of the other people we had been sailing near we found ourselves completely alone for most of the day.
We headed into Oriental expecting to have to anchor but found we were lucky enough to get a spot on the free town dock. The only reason we did was because another boat had just been thrown off for violating the time limit you can stay. When we started to dock the woman from the boat across the dock jumped out to help us – it’s what cruisers do - and she said “Hey ! We met you in Cape May!!”. Actually it was Coney Island and again in Cape May. It was the young couple we had spent time with on our way back from our trip north. We are next to a dock that the large shrimp boats use. I didn’t think it was shrimp season, but they do come and go occasionally. You can see us on the left hand side of the dock in the picture above.
We are spending our allotted 48 hours at the dock here. We are enjoying the city and have eaten two meals out already, plus we had a snack at the coffee shop across from our boat. Yesterday we borrowed bikes, also in the picture, and had a nice discussion with the shop owner who lent them to us. We went to the supermarket and got some food and are working on some projects on the boat. It was a nice day and definitely warmer.
Today we plan to leave around noon and go to Beaufort, NC. Many boats leave from there to go offshore to the Bahamas and Caribbean but we are going to stay inside and enjoy the Intracoastal Waterway all the way to Florida.