Day 301 – Morehead City, NC to River Dunes Harbor Club, Oriental, NC - May 2, 2012

We had another beautiful travel day today.  For the first time in quite awhile we saw a couple of tow boats (one with a barge and one without).  We also experienced the biggest water we’ve seen in quite awhile.  Lately we’ve been cruising along the intercoastal in narrow rivers and man-made channels with the occasional smallish inlet to the ocean.  The Cape Fear River (at about 1.5 miles wide) was probably the largest body of water we have seen recently.  Today we got into the Neuse River and we could see out into Pamlico Sound.  The Neuse River is about four miles across where we entered and we then traveled about ten miles down the river to just short of where it meets Pamlico Sound.  Pamlico Sound is very big – over 85 miles from one end to the other and around 25 miles wide at it’s widest.  As a result of all this “big water” we actually had waves today – under one footers, but still quite a change from what we’ve seen lately.  Almost like being back in the Great Lakes and our home waters of Saginaw Bay.

We have quite a few larger sounds to traverse over the next few days, so we will be paying a bit more attention to wind and weather.
 
            Miles: 30.0      Bridges: 1        Locks: 0

traveling along Adams Creek

Adams Creek

there were some major storms north of us, but all we
saw were big clouds and some lightning

the sun setting behind the trees