That too windy!

We spent another day here at South River. The wind was up with occassional gusts to 25+ so it was too windy for us pleasure boaters. maybe tomorrow..

The wind did lay down in the afternoon and it got hot. We luckily put up the tarp we brought -- I added it at the last minute. That keeps the hull temperature down so the boat will cool quicker after sunset.

Not much going on today -- just a lot of relaxing, cleaning the hatch ports, and I dove on the boat checking zincs and prop -- all looked fine. I took a swim later in the afternoon just to cool off, unfortunately the water is still very murky here. The water temp is 75 degrees but it felt COLD to me, but it was good also. We kind of felt like we were cruising again. Depending on the weather tomorrow we will either go on to Ocracoke Island or back to the marina -- forecast is a heat index of 105 here tomorrow. However the high in Ocracoke is only 84 tomorrow -- ahh the island effect.

So we have to make an early departure tomorrow because the wind is supposed to really get strong tomorrow afternoon. If we leave around 6am we can be in Ocracoke between noon and 1pm, otherwise it's back to North West Creek marina and plug the AC in.

Cape Lookout is out until at earliest Monday. Just can't get the breaks this month but we are working with it.