Plans Are Made to Be Changed!

Date            April 28, 2012                            
Day             305
Departure    Morehead City Yacht Basin, Morehead City, NC 8:55 am
Arrival         Sea Gate Marina, Newport, NC 1:20 pm
Miles               10.3
Cumulative   4967.2

Our travel plans for today was to go to River Dunes Marina, which meant traveling across and up the Neuse River.  A short time before we reached the Neuse River, we had a phone call from Summer Wind.  They had docked at Morehead City last night also and left for Oriental, NC about 1 1/2 hours before we did this morning.  They said that traveling across the Neuse River was nasty, waves were 3-4 feet on the nose.  We decided to forego all that fun and stopped at a small marina right off the ICW about 5 miles before we reached the river.  Will try for River Dunes tomorrow!  However, along the way today, I finally caught a dolphin somewhat out of the water, so it wasn't a bad day after all!

I know the picture below is somewhat fuzzy and hard to see, but it was the funniest sight.  It is an Osprey, flying with a load of branches grasped in its feet.  It attempted to land on a red (triangle) channel marker, but was not able to and chose to land on a green (square) marker instead.  There were no other branches on that channel marker, so this fellow is just starting to build its nest!

 

Here is a view of the Sea Gate Marina's transient dock from our back deck.  Not a lot here, but it is extremely quiet and peaceful, even though it is a stone's through from the ICW.