Mile Hammock

 4/22- Carolina Beach to Mile Hammock( Camp LeJune)

   We couldn’t see the dawn crack today so we just left. There was a dredge that was in the middle of the channel a little ways up from Carolina Beach. They must have had a mile or so of pipe laid out and buoyed with little red balls. Some people were getting confused by the red balls as you keep red to port here. But when we saw it it looked fairly obvious which side to go on. The dredge was in the channel and getting around him meant having to go into a shallow area but we had high tide on our side and got through with no trouble. 

   Several miles down the road we encountered another dredge and we called him as it was kind of confusing where to go. He politely gave us instructions and we were fine. We did take the turn a little wide and ended up in very shallow water but had no problem getting back on track. You have to get fairly close to the dredge and they have an anchor out off to their side and you have to dodge that cable which isn’t always that visible. 

   The wind was hard out of the north and on the nose so it made for some pretty slow going. We went by a bunch of inlets but never really got a boost from the tide. We pulled into Mile Hammock anchorage around 5pm. This anchorage is a large pool in the middle of an army base. It is remarkably consistent in its depth so there were 7 other boats in here tonight. Almost every one of the boats had passed us at some point during the day. Considering the fact that we will leave very early tomorrow they will probably pass us again. 

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