Open water at last!

Posted on by Maggie Selo

We left Harbour Village Marina Thursday morning and headed to Beaufort NC. As I mentioned earlier, we passed by Camp Lejuene on our way there. I called early that morning to see if there would be live fire – they close the ICW when there is live fire! Fortunately there was nothing scheduled for that day.

I guess we won’t be going ashore here!
Looks like this is what they fire at across the ICW.

We arrived at Homer Smith Marina in Beaufort in the early afternoon. The marina is just 3 blocks from the main street with lots of restaurants and shops. The whole area is an historic district with houses dating back to the early 1800s – really cool area! The main street reminded us of Saugatuck. I realized after we got back to the boat that I didn’t take any photos ☹️

We had dinner at a restaurant that reminded us of Everyday People Cafe in Saugatuck. This was Rich’s blackened grouper.
And this was my scallop special – quite tasty!
The next day we had lunch at a waterfront restaurant – this was the view from our table.
We got the courtesy car and did some provisioning at the local Piggly Wiggly. These are all retro and craft sodas!
We discovered that there was a big fishing tournament going on all week long. Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, based in Morehead City, which is just across the water from Beaufort, had 185 boats registered. Fishing boats were in all of the marinas, including this one which was just across from our boat. We heard on the news tonight that the top prize in the tournament was $800,000!
Sunset from our boat in Beaufort.

We left Beaufort at 7:30 this morning to take advantage of high tide, traveled 70 miles and arrived at Dowry Creek Marina 6 hours later. Most of the trip was on wide open water – what a nice change from narrow channels!

Pamlico Sound
Even in relatively open waters there are markers for the ICW.
In front of the building on the left is a heated pool – we plan to do some swimming tomorrow.
Sunset at Dowry Creek
And full moon over the ICW as seen from the bow of our boat.

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