Wrightsville

Another early morning departure as there are very limited anchorages for the next little while and the ones that are there have limited room. Swansboro was a lovely little town and I (Heather) was very tempted to stay another day but had to remind myself that there are lots of quaint little towns down the way:)

We passed by Camp LeJeune today, we heard the firing yesterday and it started up again around 730 this morning but luckily it was somewhere other than over the ICW so we weren’t delayed. It was really loud today, mainly mortar fire with the odd machine guns for effect!

All was going well this morning, we had been travelling along a long straight stretch and were just entering a turn when we caught sight of this fellow coming our way! It’s very intimidating meeting another boat let alone something like this on these narrow passageways!

We got a kick out of the fact that one of the landmarks in our book today was a “pink house”… well they weren’t kidding… there was a pink house at that location! It was almost as cheerful as yesterdays lime green house.

Another landmark today was “a giraffe” and yup there was a giraffe!

Many of the houses are built on stilts due to the high flooding along the waterways, we even saw a mobile home on stilts…

The majority of houses again today were even more opulent than previous ones, we still haven’t figured out how there is so much money down here!

The shoaling seemed a little more prevalent today, a little trawler just in front of us ran hard aground but was able to free himself with a bit of rocking.

We had three opening bridges today so we had to watch our timing more today, but it all worked out fairly well. We reached our initial destination around 1pm today so decided to continue on and were able to reach Wrightsville by 5pm, we were surprised that we made 55 miles today! We set anchor and were ready to hit the town by the time Shep and Deb from High ZZ’s dinghy’d over to our boat. Again we were treated to a beautiful little town albit more of younger beach town feel to it. The four of us had a nice walk to stretch our legs and then enjoyed Taco Tuesday at a little Mexican Restaurant.

Note: pictures to follow when we get better service!