With the time change we are adjusting our travelling to take advantage of the light when it is there. So now we are getting up before 5:30 so that we can be pulling up the anchor just after the sun comes up. A late night now is anything after 10pm.
This morning we continued on in to the Alligator River Canal. You’d think another canal would be boring but it allows us to see up close by the life along the shore. What we are really noticing now is the different ecosystem we have entered – a distinctly more southern look and feel. Now we are swatting at mosquitoes again! Along shore the cyprus trees are amongst the swaying tall grasses. The calm waters and warm sunshine also made good conditions for Christopher to go forward on the deck to watch this new world go by.
The canal has many dead head logs floating (that often look like alligators lurking about) and we have to be very diligent in navigating our way through. We came across another sailboat that had hit and ridden up on a submerged stump. He was being pulled off by another boat and it didn’t look good the way the boat had to rock and lean and creak and groan to get off.
By afternoon dark clouds came in, we were out of the canal into bigger water and had the sails out again for a while. With rain threatening we made our way into the protected waters just off of Belhaven NC. Time to launch the dinghy again and head to a town that has an old North Carolina look to it. We did a good walk around and hit a great little ice cream and coffee shop. Great way to end the day before buzzing our way back to Tiffany Rose just before the sun went down.
This morning we continued on in to the Alligator River Canal. You’d think another canal would be boring but it allows us to see up close by the life along the shore. What we are really noticing now is the different ecosystem we have entered – a distinctly more southern look and feel. Now we are swatting at mosquitoes again! Along shore the cyprus trees are amongst the swaying tall grasses. The calm waters and warm sunshine also made good conditions for Christopher to go forward on the deck to watch this new world go by.
The canal has many dead head logs floating (that often look like alligators lurking about) and we have to be very diligent in navigating our way through. We came across another sailboat that had hit and ridden up on a submerged stump. He was being pulled off by another boat and it didn’t look good the way the boat had to rock and lean and creak and groan to get off.
By afternoon dark clouds came in, we were out of the canal into bigger water and had the sails out again for a while. With rain threatening we made our way into the protected waters just off of Belhaven NC. Time to launch the dinghy again and head to a town that has an old North Carolina look to it. We did a good walk around and hit a great little ice cream and coffee shop. Great way to end the day before buzzing our way back to Tiffany Rose just before the sun went down.
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