Sunday May 5: Wrightsville Beach, NC

After checking what the weather was doing, we finally decided to move on today a very short 14 miles to Wrightsville Beach.

This area (including Carolina Beach) is made of up of many areas that are nothing but sand dunes. There are a few along the waterway but farther out toward the ocean they seem to be everywhere.

Many small inlets along this stretch - the other side of the waterway is mostly homes and boat docks.

One of the reasons we moved on today was to be near the bridge that opens only on the hour. It's so much easier to time when we're docked 5 minutes from the bridge!

The next stretch of travel (about 8 hours worth) has 3 or 4 bridges that we will have to have raised and all are on a schedule so being near the first one really helps.

Plus it keeps the next leg of travel to a reasonable 8 hours instead of 10. This part of the ICW has limited marinas and even more limited anchorages! Normally we would just anchor at a place in Camp Lejeune but with the wind still predicted to be high, we'll likely pass it up this time around.

It was a good score on the bike ride though. A nice Harris Teeter grocery store and a CVS pharmacy with a Redbox! We started watching "The Hobbit" when we were at Matt and Wendy's but didn't have enough time to watch the whole thing.

We also scored by being in CVS during the quick downpour (which wasn't supposed to happen).

So tonight: The Hobbit is on the agenda. We really like Redbox - wish it would have been my idea to start something like that!

I keep forgetting to add the picture Wendy sent a while back: proof positive that there was work accomplished while we were staying at their place a few weeks ago.

Wendy and Matt had hosted a volunteer appreciation get-together and given the great view they have, the windows might as well be clean!

We'll be back there by the end of this week - wonder what work they have in store for us this time :-)  Seems like a fair trade for housing though so no complaints for us!