The anchorage next to Camp LeJeune was nice but very windy. It blew 15 mph until about 9 and then finally calmed down totally by morning. We were up and moving early in order to be sure we were past the camp before live round firing practices started. Really. This is the sunrise this morning.
There were a group of marines practicing by their boat ramp/dock pilings. Looked to us they were just working on keeping a boat perpendicular to the wind yet backed up to the dock pilings. No easy feat as the wind was really blowing. We saw some dead tanks near the waterway - with lots of bullet holes in them. This is were we decided the live firing indicated by the sign happened! The sign itself is AFTER we passed through the area. If there had been live firing going on a marine boat would have stopped us from going north until they finished.
Medium size jets were also practicing - the jet would take off, circle the waterway, head back to the base and do a vertical landing. Talk about LOUD - sure glad that they weren't thinking of using us for target practice :-)Things you never see in the north: pink houses, pink houses with seahorses and pink houses with a giraffe in the front yard!
Since we started off so early, we were at Moorehead City (across the river from Beaufort, NC) right around lunch time. As luck (or preplanning as Steve would accuse me of) would have it, there was a place with a dock so we stopped for lunch - The Ruddy Duck. The tide was turning anyway and we were going against it the rest of the 2 hours to our anchorage so the break was nice. Great fish and crabcake sandwiches! We are still traveling with Joyce and Dave on Joysea.
Last but the most important: congratulations to Matt and Wendy on their 15th wedding anniversary!!!! My how the time flies. Seems like yesterday .....
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