Tuesday May 7: Work in Swansboro

 Finally - a nice morning to go exploring! We found a fun breakfast place in the old downtown of Swansboro. It has a lot of Elvis stuff but also has many pictures of old cars (like from the 50's).

There was even a poster of the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels - none of this Johnny Depp Tonto stuff).

The town itself is quite small. I think we could have ridden down every street in a sum total of 30 minutes or so. The marina here has a courtesy car but we really didn't need anything (main stores are about 5 miles or so away).

You can tell  you're in a small town when the main bank in town has rocking chairs on the front porch!

Steve found the breakfast place had some really nice flowers - exceptional is the way he termed it.












Many of the homes were from the 1700's and 1800's as the town was founded in the late 1700's. Very interesting place. The 'old downtown' has a variety of restaurants and gift shops.



The most surprising thing we saw was the flock of pink flamingos. I didn't realize they lived this far north :-)





The view riding back across the bridge was nice. Sure didn't look like this when we pulled in yesterday. A few sprinkles last night and that was it.

Today was a work day. We are again chasing down an electrical issue. It's becoming a familiar theme. Most likely a loose or corroded ground wire somewhere on the boat. And of course this means the front cabin, closet and dinette seat are all torn up. The sad thing is that working on the issue from 11 am until 5 pm didn't produce a solution. We think we've isolated the issue to a couple of places but still it just seems that this shouldn't be that hard to figure out.

Tomorrow is another day - the weather is supposed to be good and we will continue up the waterway. Should end up at the marina that is just about 20 minutes from Matt and Wendy's place in Havelock. I expect it will seem like we never left :-)