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Still Cold!
28 November 2012 | Swansboro, NC
Donna
We got to Beaufort, North Carolina yesterday afternoon. That is pronounced as Bo-fort as opposed to the Beaufort in South Carolina that is pronounced as Bew-fort. The most exciting thing about our trip was discovering all the dolphins around us as we got closer to our destination. There is an inlet from the ocean in Beaufort and the dolphins come in and play. Yesterday we had a number of dolphins swimming alongside the boat, once we got to the anchorage they were all around us there too!
The ICW is marked by adding a yellow square or a yellow triangle to the normal navigation marks. On the way south you leave the yellow triangles to your starboard (right) and the yellow squares to your port (left). The picture above shows an ICW mark that is very popular with the cormorants.
It was a pretty cold day yesterday, followed by some rain last night, but nothing compared to today when it was windy and cold. Our plan was to take care of some things on the boat this morning and then go into town and check out Beaufort. We had some packages to ship but they have moved the post office away from downtown and it wasn’t going to be easy to get there. Bill called the museum to see if there was a bus that would take us in that direction and they offered to ship the packages for us and let us pay them. That was very nice, but when it was time to take the dinghy down it was just too cold so we decided to skip Beaufort for this trip and continue south.
I put on all my layers again and took my position behind the wheel. The majority of the day we were in Bogue Sound. Again we hadn’t left when most people do so there was no one near us at all. The past two days we have ended up travelling behind Peregrine – the young couple we met last trip. This afternoon they could see us behind them on their AIS receiver (that is a device that helps us see where the big ships are) and they called us on the VHF radio to warn us about a shallow spot they hit. We were very careful and easily avoided going aground there. Unfortunately when we came in to our anchorage area in Swansboro we went hard aground. It took Bill a little bit of time to get the boat off. It was almost dark and it would have been very unpleasant if we couldn’t push the boat off the sand. Luckily we were able to. Now we can’t say we haven’t really gone aground yet!