Ahhhh on the water again!!

We are BACK!!!! just for a week but we are still back..

Bubbles (Craig and Dovie) are accompanying us on a weeks cruise to Ocracoke and Washington, NC through Pamlico Sound and up the Pamlico River.

We started today. Left early just to get away from the dock and hundreds of dead fish floating in the Marina. There has been a huge fish kill going on for 3 weeks now and most are finding there way into the marina. It is very sad and odiferous!!.

They say it is low oxygen in the water but why does it continue!!

We had a nice motor to South River today. Very light winds -- not enough to fill a sail. We left at 9:30 and were in by 2:30pm. Played with all the toys... I was running a route uploaded to the GPS from the Coastal explorer software, had the monitor in the cockpit, played with the Gyro Mouse, and checked in with the Waterway Net once I remembered to tune my antenna. Used 2 meters all the way across the river to criticize what we saw. Great private line.

Craig and I both took time to dive on our boat bottoms to check them out. Temptation was looking great. Just light slime and no barnacles on the prop.

The weather forecast was for some rain and thunderstorms today but it seems they all passed early this morning before we left. It has been nice yet "too" warm day on the river -- low 80s. Should cool off nicely tonight with lows in the 50s.

Tomorrow we will make Ocracoke and should send some pictures from there. Looking forward to a nice moon lit night -- Full Moon is tomorrow!!

Gosh it's great to be back on the juice -- Neuse juice that is.