Carolina Beach to Mile Hammock Bay

PEKABU leaving
Carolina Beach
taken by HAPPY TRAILS

     Pete had calculated the time needed to make the 10 am opening of the Wrightsville Bridge.  We had planned to leave at 8 to leave us a slight buffer. We waived farewell to SV HAPPY TRAILS as they were going to say at Carolina Beach for a couple of days to provision and walk the beach. We were only 10 minutes behind in our timing, but Pete was concerned due to our slow headway against the current.   We made it to the bridge at 10:02.  Thankfully, the bridge tender was friendly and agreed to open.  Once we clear this bridge, there is only one more for today, The Figure Eight Bridge.

     Boat traffic was pretty light compared to other days of traveling.  Around 3, we were the first of 4 to drop anchor in Mile Hammock. Bailey was confused as Pete didn’t try to walk her after he set the anchor.  Currently, there were about 20 marines along with 8 vehicles on shore taking turns driving a course.  Pete found our later that these were MPs, who were training in evasive driving.  They wrapped up around 5:30 and Bailey was glad to finally head to shore.
          

     After dinner, as the sun set the mosquitoes came out, so we headed down below.  Once again did some reading since we didn’t recharge the batteries, then headed to bed.

~ ~ ~ /) ~ ~  P & K