The Oriental Express

We had a great run today. We snuck out of the anchoracge at 6 this morning to make it to the first bridge opening (on demand) prior to their start of only open on the hour schedule. That not only put us ahead of schedule, but kept other boats from passing us for quite some time. When a boat passes you in the same direction it creates a huge wake and you lose the momentum. The sky openened up around 930 to where we could hardly see the next marker. GPS kept us on track. We decided against pitstops for lunch or supplies and just kept on going. At Morehead City it got a little confusing with all the harbor markers, but we had our GPS... until it lost it's satelite fix, twice! What timing. A word of advice: Always have paper charts as back up and when the GPS comes back you can use them to wipe youself. Our goal for today was an anchorage towards the end of Adams Creek, but we were so far ahead of schedule we decided to keep going to Oriental which was going to be tomorrow's destination. We plan to spend a couple of days here before resuming our travels- we love this town. I'm gonna try to access the fuel tank and they have a great provision store here, so I guess we'll go spend some money. Anyway, they have a webcam that updates every few minutes right across from our slip. Check it out you may catch us walking by. Our boat is hidden behind a power boat, but you can see the mast. http://towndock.net/ After dinner we took a walk and took a couple of pictures. I titled them Linda gets crabs and I'm dragon ass. Also a couple more from todays trip. Sorry no Louie Pirate jokes today. I'll save them for tomorrow.