Oriental, NC in Pictures

We stayed from Thursday night till Sunday morning.  A quaint lil sailing town.

Who loves dragons!

 

The hot spot of town The Bean.  Good coffee and free internet.

The rest of the town a short bike ride away.  We were able to get a new charger for our handheld VHF at the local West Marine.  And we got a new in board VHF at this Marine Consignment shop.  We can communicate again!

Thank you Scott for the Hawian Sling!  We can't wait to get to clear waters to use it.

Even Nomy enjoyed Oriental and came out of the boat cabin pretty often.

We fueled up.

Christine got her much desired shower for $5 from the marina next door.

A house renovated by children.

Our town free dock.

We currently are staying the extra night because their are no other boats around and it was sleeting earlier.  We will be on our way south in the a.m. and wont post again till we reach Christines Granpas beach house in Kure Beach!

DOLPHINS!!!!

We got up at the crack of dawn and were underway by 6:45am.  We were eager to get to Oriental, NC TODAY!

Nala wasn't ready to be awake this early

We went through two more canals, larger than the Dismal, that were pretty easy.

Then while I was resting and Christine was at the helm along the Pungo River at mile marker 137 I heard her scream OH MY GOD AHHHH!!!! and I jumped up thinking we were running into a tanker or something. And then she screamed DOLPHINS!!!!!

Make sure to watch the whole video as one gets 5 feet away :)

Racing the sunset down the Neuse River

We pulled into the Oriental chanel right at 6pm when all light disapeared.  Christine sat at the bow again with the spot light and our walkie talkies on and navigated us into our 48 hour free dock!  You can see our boat here at http://www.towndock.net/harborcam

We broke the folding bikes out finally and strolled around town to get a preview. We can't wait to explore this sailing town!

Friday the 7th, 11:30am : We are currently sitting at The Bean enjoying coffee and ice cream :)