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| 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.
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| 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.
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| A Job NOT well done!! |
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| A Marooned Yacht |
