As is usual, Steve was up with the sunrise (he's still sleeping sitting up at the table). Good thing he takes these pictures or else I'd never get to see a sunrise :-) By the time I was up and moving and we had breakfast, we were the only boat left in the marina. Talk about a great place: even had a newspaper delivered to our dock! I could get to really like this ......
This is the World Acclaimed Hamburger sign but like I said I'm not sure how this claim came to be! Steve found a fun tree right by the marina. Not sure what it is but it's kind of strange looking.
20 of the 45 miles today were in the Alligator River - Pungo River Canal. Naturally enough it connects the Alligator River to the Pungo River which allows us to travel south without having to travel in the Pamlico Sound which is VERY LARGE and quite dangerous. It's again part of the water that is inside of the Outer Banks of NC. The guidebooks warn that unless you have a fast boat that can move quickly out of harms way, don't go there. Ok then. Canals are pretty boring but that's ok. No worries about the winds, waves. 
Tonight we're at the Dowry Creek Marina on the Pungo River. It's a nice place - we stopped here on the way north. Tonight (and every night for that matter) there was a boater pot luck dinner. Food was excellent and we met more new boaters and ran into some 'old' ones that we had met at Elizabeth City or at the Alligator River Marina. I suspect we'll continue to run into them along the way down - that's just how it works :-)
Tomorrow: not a great weather prediction so we may stay another day. They have a courtesy car here so we could go into Belhaven and get the remaining parts we need to put the new battery charger in. The new charger will make staying out without power much easier to do. Besides, another pot luck tomorrow night would be just fine as I get to eat bad stuff that Steve rarely will make :-) 
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