Day 228: Saturday, April 20 , 2013
Port to Port: Morehead City, North Carolina
Underway: 0:00 am Motor Off: 0:00 pm Miles Traveled: 0 Stayed At: Marina
Mile 205 to Mile 205: After a lot of rain and a little thunder overnight, the wind shifted to the north and the marina basin calmed down making for a relatively quite nights sleep. It would have been a good day to get to the next marina but Boris is still being worked on so today is a day to explore. Sometimes it’s nice to not have a choice in staying or going – we can just relax and make the most of our situation.
We decided to start with breakfast at Georgia B’s – from the outside you can hardly tell it’s open but inside it is very nice. The tables even are custom made with the restaurant logo. Lots of nice touches. The breakfast was wonderful too – 2 eggs, bacon, hashbrowns and a homemade biscuit. Cindy had french toast. We won’t be suffering if we have to stay in Morehead several more days.
Did I mention the harbormaster, Denard and his wife, Kay, have six college degrees between them (including undergrad, graduate and phd’s in economics/finance and biology, respectively. And now they are marina owners. It is interesting where life takes you.
Denard loaned us his truck to go to the Aquarium and Walmart. The Aquarium was crowded with families and kids but that made it even more fun. The main pool had hundreds of fish swimming through it including several sharks. The giant 8” thick epoxy windows were crystal clear and you felt like you were swimming with the fish. We stopped at the beach on the way to Walmart and enjoyed watching the waves crash on shore at a mostly empty beach (windy and cool). We stocked up at Walmart and returned to the marina to eat our bucket of chicken wings and watch a movie. Or so we thought.
Denard told us that a couple we met on the dock from the neighboring condo – Jim and Karen – had invited us to the Cape Lookout Yacht Club party. Plans are meant to be broken. We quickly stowed our purchases, cleaned up a little and joined Denard and Kay at the party. What a blast. We met a bunch of great people, drank some wine and enjoyed snacks for a couple hours. We even met Cheryl who grew up in Hutchinson – about 50 miles west of Mound. Her Mom used to work at Tonka Toys in Mound about the same time my Mom worked there. We ended up going to dinner with Jim, Karen, Bill and Susan and having a wonderful evening (although I did pay for eating too many onion rings). When we woke up in the morning we didn’t know what the day would bring. In the end, it turned out to be a great day on the Great Loop.
