Started our morning as usual with study of charts. Complicated bit of navigation in Morehead City (a huge container shipping port) and across a wide body of water off the ICW into Oriental, NC. But I think we are getting the hang of this. Except for a few missteps (right turn? Left turn? Slight? Acute?) we did just fine. I am only slightly exaggerating. These charts can be confusing.
Houses lined the waterway with only a few condos and trailer/RV parks along the way. You really get jaded…we’ve seen so many spectacular homes that it’s hard to get excited by many of them.
The scenery was different with wide expanses of water to the right (starboard in Boat-speak). The only problem was that the water depth was about one foot bordered by a narrow sand shoal . Beautiful, but dangerous. We saw a man “walking” his dog along the sandy stretch that separated the ICW from the shallows…he must have arrived in a flat bottomed Row Boat!
Oriental, NC for two days!
I remember having fried “seafood” and hush puppies in Morehead City on a trip to the beach from Durham – a great college adventure. Not surprised that the landscape is not fancy.