Morehead City to Mile Hammock Bay, NC

Today:  42 miles, 6.25 hours, ICW St. M 244.5

Total:  440.2 miles, 63.25 hours

Very interesting First Light
wile leaving the marina

We were up and out by 7:15. We wanted to make sure that we could catch slack tide as we crossed the Beaufort Inlet.  In the past, we have had the current against as we tried to cross the inlet and traveling at 3.5 mph is no fun.  Thankfully, 7:30 am was the magic time.  We crossed the inlet doing 7mph and once south of the inlet, and the currents changed, we were doing 8.7!

Lighting on the western shore

The watercolors of dawn!

Pete, once again was very focused on work all morning.  Thankfully, it was a pretty easy ride and another short day. PEGASUS caught up with us as we entered Camp Lejeune.  Brown’s Inlet once again proved tricky for PEGASUS, after a brief grounding, they followed the directions from last year (staying pretty close to western shore.) We dropped anchor around 1.  Over the course of the afternoon, 8 other boats joined us.

One of the many dolphins we saw

Helicopter and birds
over Camp Lejeune

Once again, periodically over the course of the afternoon and early evening, helos made their approach over the anchorage to the operations area.  We were invited for cocktails aboard PEGASUS, but I had to reneg.  I’ve had a nausea and cramping since lunch and would not be good company.  I figured out that I has the last of the Half & Half in my coffee this morning and it must have begun to turn.

New River Inlet is just south of here.  BOB 423 had an excellent, Corps of Engineers’ map, coordinates and directions.  Pete and Charlie discussed everything and decided we will leave at 7:15 in the morning.  Tide will be high, and winds calm.  Pete entered the coordinates as weigh points and he will navigate in the lead.

Sunset was spectacular. The moon’s rising came up through the clouds about the same time.  The full moon is tomorrow.

Sunset

Moon rise

Still not feeling well, we called it an early night.

~~~/) ~~ K & P