To: Pungo Creek Anchorage NC (N35*30.576, W76*39.128.400) 9.2 ft deep
Miles Traveled: 33.3nm (173.3) Time leaving 7:30am Time in – 1:30pm
Weather Conditions: Clear, cool, 50* winds NNE10
Hailed Jade East at 6:30 to let him know we just got up and wished them fair winds. We got out at 8:00 am and into the Alligator Canal. It’s a straight cut so I’m catching up on my journal, making fried egg sandwiches and hoping my bread dough will rise now that it’s warming up out. It didn’t do much rising last night. Its kind of funny because I have the radio on scan and some guys are talking about growing cotton and how in some areas it’s still to wet – they need chains to harvest it. Interesting discussions on channel 18 none of it very nautical. I’m learning that the neighbor of the guy that’s talking grows the best cotton and just uses potash as fertilizer. They can’t pick it when it’s to wet and some of the area that he’s gone over looks like there’s more left standing than what they cleared (per his discussion).
We anchored in the Creek past Belhaven (in the Pungo Creek). It’s a nice quiet little creek that’s a little more open than the one going into Belhaven – there are 3 ft shoals in there so we came to this one. It’s fairly well sheltered. When we dropped anchor, it stuck pretty good into the mud and went zipping out of Wayne’s hands. I heard “stop, stop, stop… Reverse” and threw it into reverse – hard. It shocked me to see the chain go zipping out of Wayne’s hands so fast. I hope we didn’t snag something we shouldn’t have. I’m not ready to give up another anchor already. We had hotdogs for dinner and my bread came out of the oven a little after dinner. I wanted to see if I could fit 3 loaves in the oven and they did fit but the one to the left side was way over done – TOAST – yum. It looks like my broadband card works here with a 20% signal so we may be able to catch up on email here. It’s starting to sprinkle and rain is called for tomorrow so we’ll be here for the next day.
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