After just under 2 weeks with us, Wade had to get back for the start of his classes and
left us in Beaufort this morning. To get back to Baltimore he took: the boat,
the dinghy, a cab, a bus, a train, and finally another car ride. It only took
16+ hours
After saying our farewells to Wade, we went for a quick hike
on the Rachael Carson reserve where we encountered hordes of fiddler crabs!
Millions of them! The scenery was great and luckily the horses kept their
distance.
We then hopped back on the In Sanity to catch the tide for our next maneuver. We decided to
shoot the Beaufort/Morehead city inlet and try to do some diving. We made it
out of the channel but the 4’ rollers and the multiplying whitecaps had us
heading for the barn. We pulled in across the inlet from where we started the
day. We tied up at the Morehead City Gulf docks where we bought 100 gallons of
diesel and tied up for the night. We have been getting about 2 miles per gallon over the course of the trip - including running the generator!
We had an excellent evening. It started with
the dockhand who was very knowledgeable, friendly, and also had dabbled in
oyster aquaculture! He later returned with some tuna a charter boat had given
him earlier in the day. We threw it on the grill on the back deck and watched
the sun go down. A $7 million Viking (about 80’) pulled in next to us and
loaded up with diesel for, rumor had it, a crossing to the Azores! We watched
dolphins catch fish in their underwater lights after the sun went down.
An old friend of ours and a new one stopped in for a quick “Hello”
as well. Josh, one of our old college friends, happened to be in the area with
his girlfriend. He had a long ride home and we were planning on stopping in his
neck of the woods later in the trip so he didn’t stay long but it was great to see him again after 3+ years!
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