11/14- We dawdled at the dock this morning as we only had a short distance to go and I wanted to get there at slack tide. That didn’t work out so well. We left around 10 as that was supposed to be slack tide but backing out of the slip and the current took the tiller right out of Alayne’s hands. So getting out of the slip turned out to be almost as ugly as getting in. Well as they say any one you walk away from is a good one. 

   So we chugged on down the ICW which was a narrow channel with very shallow depth on either side. We were behind a bunch of barrier islands so the wind while fairly strong was not an issue. At least the current was against us and was slowing us down a bit. That is until about half way there when the current turned with us. Then we started to fly even as I slowed the motor. Once we were past Bogue inlet the current slammed on the brakes but by then we were all but in Swansboro. As it turned out the marina was up current so it slowed us nicely as we laid up against the dock wall. It made it look like we knew what we were doing!!?? 

    This an interesting little town filled with a bunch of little shops and restaurants. They are certainly ready for Christmas as the tree is up and the town has put up all the Christmas decorations already. The real question here is where will we be doing Christmas?



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