Friday, we made our way (10 1/2 hour trip!) to Morehead City and docked at Sanitary Fish Market. Basic docks - no electric or water, but only $10. We like cheap. Rick and Lynnie on Rickshaw make MHC their home port. Rick and Lynnie are our friends from the DeFever Cruisers Club that we spent time with in the Exumas. It's always great to meet up with cruising friends and play catch-up. We met them for pizza across the street. Then on Saturday, we moved over to their marina, Morehead City Yacht Basin. Rick and Lynnie ferried us around town doing errands and took us to a great New York Deli for lunch. I know, we're not in New York, but the owner is from New York, and knows how to make a great pastrami on rye. Reminded me of the Deli across the street from the World Trade Center. I'm sure it's not there anymore.
Saturday afternoon Gypsies came in (they spent one extra day in Wrightsville Beach for a beach day) and the six of us went to dinner on Atlantic Beach. It was great, as always, to spend some time with Rick and Lynnie. Their plan is to head to the Chesapeake aboard Rickshaw later this summer, so I'm sure we will meet-up again.
Sunday afternoon the four of us took the marina loaner car over to Beaufort, (pronounced bowfort) did the tourist thing and hit the shops along the waterfront, then toured three bars where we had a few cold ones and appetizers for dinner. You probably think that's all we do is look for funky bars. I can tell you, that is another great way to get a flavor of a town and meet some of the locals, ie; Backstreet Pub where everyone knows your name. Besides, we were thirsty!
Today it is raining and thundering. It's expected to be that way all day, so we are going to stay one more day here before we head to Ocracoke on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We will try to stay out of the bars today, but I make no promises.
September Song (chilling out in Morehead City) out
Bob
Home along the ICW. Can you say huge?
Saturday afternoon Gypsies came in (they spent one extra day in Wrightsville Beach for a beach day) and the six of us went to dinner on Atlantic Beach. It was great, as always, to spend some time with Rick and Lynnie. Their plan is to head to the Chesapeake aboard Rickshaw later this summer, so I'm sure we will meet-up again.
Sunday afternoon the four of us took the marina loaner car over to Beaufort, (pronounced bowfort) did the tourist thing and hit the shops along the waterfront, then toured three bars where we had a few cold ones and appetizers for dinner. You probably think that's all we do is look for funky bars. I can tell you, that is another great way to get a flavor of a town and meet some of the locals, ie; Backstreet Pub where everyone knows your name. Besides, we were thirsty!
Today it is raining and thundering. It's expected to be that way all day, so we are going to stay one more day here before we head to Ocracoke on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We will try to stay out of the bars today, but I make no promises.
September Song (chilling out in Morehead City) out
Bob
Home along the ICW. Can you say huge?
Another home along the ICW. Can you say huge and PINK?
Another home along the ICW in the middle of the marshlands. As we passed they entertained us with weird banjo music. Can you say Billy Bob?
270 miles to the Chesapeake. We are going to take a different route and explore the Outer Banks first
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