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November 2020: Shamal and her Crew have arrived safely back into Opua, Bay of Islands, New Zealand completing their circumnavigation a year ago. Due to Covid-19 and New Zealand's Boarders being closed, they will continue to spend their 2020/21 Summer exploring some of New Zealand's waters. Thanks to all of you for following our Adventures. There will be more.

17 April 2016

The Intracoastal Waterways - I.C.W. Part Two



Adams Creek
Hello To You All Again

 
This update is very late arriving out to you which I am sorry about, but so much has happened with so much to share.  I am taking you on a bit of a historical trip down the Inter Coastal Waterway, and then you will see where we are now.  So, here we go.

 
After our morning ashore, we up anchor and with the quaint town of Oriental in our wake we cross the Neuse River, which is very wide here, to join the ICW into Adams Creek.  The temperature has risen to 21 deg.c. which makes for a nice change. From here we motor for 21nm to the town of Beaufort, NC.  where we drop the anchor, eventually, in Taylor Creek after three attempts to get it to set.  Another yacht which we have been seeing along the waterways on several occasions was having the same problems anchoring.  There are a number of yachts on mooring buoys here, plus a couple of sunken vessels which we do not want to get caught around. Finally we are dug in. 
Wild Horses
 
We are now just inside the Cape Lookout area with the Shackeford Banks between us and the Atlantic.  These are home to wild horses.  From our anchorage we watch as they come and graze among the marshes.  Later we also watched a couple of obviously inexperienced guys from one of the boating recovery companies trying to pull a marooned yacht from the shore, but to no avail.  They ended up pulling its mast off before retreating defeated!!!  We were not sure why they did it at low tide – high tide would have given them a much better chance to remove it.

 

A Job NOT well done!!
A Marooned Yacht