Elizabeth City N.C. Is The City Of Hospitality!

We left Elizabeth City Friday morning in the fog, Elizabeth City is really a city of hospitality. I'm sure they gave us all of there flies and mosquitoes! Not much wind on Friday so it was a motor day across the Albemarle Sound and down the Alligator river.

We dropped anchor just before the entrance of the Alligator and Pungo River canal. We had to drop extra chain because of the big wind coming overnight and it did start around 8pm. Where we anchored I knew there wouldn't be a lot of waves so I was sure we would be alright. We woke up at 6am and the wind was blowing 20 knots. That's a good breeze but it was a beautiful sunrise.

 

The Alligator and Pungo River canal is a big ditch to connect the two rivers so we were very protected from the strong winds and waves. Here's a picture of Sam on Sweet Pea in the canal. She is doing this trip single hand! We also saw our first palm trees on the Canal today.

Sweet Pea

Alligator Pungo River Canal

Deer on the river bank

 

Monday morning we will leave for Oriental N.C. the River Dunes Marina. This will be one of the nicest marinas we will be at. We will make our way down the Pungo river into the Pamlico Sound. This can be a rough sail because the only land between us and the Atlantic are the outer Islands of North Carolina. I have looked ahead and the winds should be in our favor. Today is our second day in Belhaven so this is the day to do laundry and provision with food and water. Not to much time to look around. I'm trying to convince Laurie to do a few postings about how she is doing on this trip. Laurie is new to sailing and she also gets sea sick. Laurie loves to drive the boat and so far she has only felt a little queasy once. So I hope she will do a blog real soon and she can tell everyone how much she is learning and easy and fun this trip has been so far.