Wrightsville Beach, NC

We left Jarrett Bay on Friday morning and made it to camp LeJeune without any problems. The dripless shaft seal was dripping a little at 2200 RMPs so Steve fixed it last night, and now it's fine. Today we left early to make it to Wrightsville Beach before a parade and fireworks. I'm not sure that they'll be doing that with such lousey weather though. Now Steve is on deck in the rain arguing with power boaters to get off of our chain. There is one power boater, Smooth, from Wilmington, NC who is just a complete SOB and anchored right over our chain. So we're hoping that this anchorage doesn't turn out too badly.

It was raining and cold most of the day today. The only fun part of the trip here was seeing dolphins everywhere. They were swimming so close to the boat that they startled Michele when they came up for air right besider her. We had to wait for three different bridge openings which wouldn't have been that bad except two of the bridges only opened once an hour on the hour. The other bridge at least opened twice an hour on the hour and the half hour. We seemed to arrive at a bridge just after the previous opening and had to wait. The current was always going the wrong way too. When we wanted to go slower the current was pushing us faster and when we wanted to go faster the current was against us. So that was a little frustrating. At least the scenery along the way pretty too. The houses along this leg of the Intracoastal Waterway are amazing.

Anyway, this should be our last stop in NC. Thank goodness we will be leaving this state soon. It was fun but.... We will probably hang here tomorrow since the forecast is promising more rain. We will post again when we plan to depart and upload some pictures from Jarrett Bay and Thanksgiving.