Not much to report. We arrived in Belhaven on Monday, and we are anchored in Pantego Creek. We haven't been off the boat since we got here because the weather is pretty bad. In fact, we haven't been off the boat since we left Elizabeth City early Sunday morning! There was nowhere to go ashore at the anchorage in Alligator River since it was just all swamp land around us. When we arrived here on Monday, we were too tired to go ashore, and, besides it was getting rather late. Since it gets dark so early now, we didn't want to drive the dinghy back to the boat in the dark.
Yesterday was miserable. It was windy and rainy. Today is mostly just windy! Really windy! It has been blowing steady at 20 to 25 kts with gale warnings until this evening. Going ashore would mean leaving the boat alone in high winds - not really a good idea. We're hoping they calm down a bit this afternoon so we can go stretch our legs a bit. (As I'm writing this post, it just started raining though). I may be getting a little cabin fever! The weather is supposed to calm down tonight so we are hoping to head out of here tomorrow. It will be sad if we stopped here and didn’t get to see the town. (I’m sure we’ll get over it.) Besides, who could be sad today? Barak Obama is president. Sorry to all you Republicans. We were good citizens and sent our absentee ballots back in Hampton. Au revoir George Bush!!!!!!!! And thank God no Sarah Palin. That was scarey!
So here we sit all by our lonesome selves (but we have each other :), waiting for a good weather window to head more south and get some additional miles behind us and the cold weather. Caio for now.
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