Friday September 21: Dowry Creek, NC

Thursday was a great day. It was my 63rd birthday (I just don't know how this is possible .... I've hear tell folks living on boats age at only half the rate of landlubbers :-) ). Wendy made brownies instead of a cake which was great! My favorite ... I even took a few with us when we left:-)

Matt picked up his I-pad on Wednesday night - what a happy guy! Not sure if he has the bouncing martian app yet but I'm sure he'll want it ....

After driving around the Havelock area for the past week, I feel like I no longer need the GPS to figure out how to get where it is I want to go. Of course just getting on base is always an experience unless you have "the pass" and then it's pretty easy.

Matt and Wendy's house itself is really easy to find. How many of us have our name on a plaque at the end of the driveway?!

But it's time to get the boat back into the water ...

Once at the marina, we found the lift just about ready to put Yesterday's Dream in the water. We had time to finish loading stuff from Wendy's car and then we just needed to be ready to move the boat to our dock for the night.

Wendy and Steve got us tied up and into the dock in record time. No hitting of the dock or anything - good to know that I still know how to drive this boat!

When we left this morning, I noticed one of the brake lights on Wendy's car was out so she took a few minutes while we were waiting at the marina to take the old bulb out so she could just stop on the home and pick up a new one.

We couldn't figure out though how to get the light itself out! No problem - just do a search on yahoo and there is the answer. I sure do love the internet!!!

Lots of stuff to put away ... cleaning up to do ... and generally get the boat ready to travel again.

I needed to reinstall the GPS as we had taken it to use with Guppy. Wendy was for some reason not impressed with the wiring going on under the flybridge.  I had to admit that getting it hooked back up right was a hit or miss thing. Fortunately, it took only one try :-)

Somebody ought to clean up this mess.

Leaving Wayfarer's Cove Marina was a picture of reflections. This marina is truly a 'hurricane hole' which is why we were felt good about leaving the boat here. Even when Irene hit last year and caused quite a tidal surge up the Neuse River, the boats on the hard at this marina were never in danger.

We'll be back later in the fall when we head to Ohio for 3 weeks.

We crossed paths with the Minnesott Ferry this time instead of being a passenger on it. Funny how accustomed we became to driving to the boat with the ferry schedule in mind. It crossed every half hour for the most part and was really a nice break in driving to the boat.

Traveling the 55 miles to Dowry Creek was crazy calm. We had originally thought to stay an extra day at Wayfarer's Cove but with the great weather decided to travel through much of the really big water area of NC: Neuse River, Palmilco River and Pongo River. So we are now here at Dowry Creek for a couple of days - finishing some of the things that still need to be done: clean the flybridge shade screens, clean the flybridge plastic, clean the bilge, and get the generator working. This is a great place to be though - and a loaner car to boot so we can get to breakfast :-)