Days 59 & 60 Oriental

While most of the trip has been about what we expected Oriental was not. We had been told it was the sailing capital of North Carolina with 3000 sailboats. While here we have seen fishing boats medium to large (68 feet) power boats, but only about 10 sail boats.

The owner of the marina, which is really a motel with 8 or 9 docks says the sailboats are here but up six different inlets. Several of the marinas have curtesy cars our motel did not. This meant a 15 minute walk with our card to the grocery store which while small was quite good.

Today is October 24 tomorrow it will be two months. Neither Trish nor I know how long we think it feels like, but both agree it does not feel like anything close to two months.

We are off to Beaufort pronounced Bo fort. We hope to anchor for a day or two then go into the Town Dock. It is municipal not free. By the way the weather is beautiful, but there is always a but, it was 47f this morning.

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