Friday - May 13, 2011

Lat 34 43 29; long 76 42 27; Fuel 202 gal; eng 807.15, Morehead City Yacht Basin; mile 204

We decided to travel with Rambler since they were going to the same place we were - Atlantic Yacht Basin and in the same time frame. We departed Morehead City at around 8:30 for the long run (80 miles) to Dowry Creek Marina in North Carolina at mile 135 of the ICW. It 4mjwas a pretty straight run up Adams Creek into the Pamlico River and then out inot open water for the run up the River to the Pungo River. In my mind these are not really rivers but openings to the ocean as they are in places several miles wide. Eventually, we arrived at Dowery Creek Marina which is set off from the city of Belhaven by a couple of miles. It is an isolated but really nice marina. They have social for all the visiting boaters each night at 5:30. Everyone chips in some food and brings what they want to drink. We finally ran into ocean Breeze again. They were traveling to Norfolk and we last saw them in Marathon before we left for a week in April. Met a few other new folks but most of them were not doing the loop.