This couple has a giraffe running around their property.

He checked us out as we went by.

Making our way through the cut at

Wrightsville Beach, NC

We fueled up with diesel, gas, ice, and water

Another junker abandoned right outside the ICW

Pelican meeting

The ICW was just littered with dolphin today my friends.

They were everywhere!  Lynn caught a set of parents

with their young pup.  One of them jumped completely

out of the water and then they all traveled towards the boat.

We caught one of them riding our bow wake.

Okay, look kind of hard.

A view east towards the Atlantic.  We are now traveling

close to the ocean.  Currents into the cuts give us

the dangerous shoals where we could go aground.

Again.  So we are diligent and listen in to announcements,

watch other boats, and slow down around these inlets

where there could be shoaling.  There is virtually

no water depth between us and the ocean.

Perhaps a foot through this cut.

 

This is a photo of our GPS chartplotter north of

Wilmington, NC.  The chartplotter has all of the charts,

depths, marinas, our current position (lat/long), speed, waypoints,

time to waypoints, etc., on a computer/screen (we're traveling

7.0 knots on a magnetic heading of 223 degrees).

GPS is not completely accurate. 

The little black dot is our boat, white is the waterway, and

beige is land.  It is showing out boat plowing the woods.

And this is why we cannot travel the ICW at night.

Not only is it pitch black out, if we had followed the chartplotter,

we would have run aground.  Now that would be bad day.

 

 

We gotta get rid of these cold temperatures.  While we were pulling up to the dock

at Wrightsville Beach, NC it began to sleet.  I hate sleet.  I had all my winter clothes

on today.  And I hate winter clothes.  The highlights were all the dolphin and pelicans

traveling with us today.  We've anchored south of Wilmington, NC where we

bought the boat 18 months ago.  The area south of us is called "Cape Fear," for a

reason.  We will turn right on the ICW just south of our anchorage and

almost into South Carolina tomorrow.