Sunrise clouds as we enter the Pamlico River. We weighed anchor at 6:45 AM in order to get more miles under us and to cross the Pamlico River early in the day and to get to an anchorage as close as possible to Albermarle Sound. This body of water is known as very challenging to cross along the ICW.
We treated Bella to an early morning lick of peanut butter laced with Benadryl in hopes of a better open water crossing for her today. I charged up my Reliefband and had it ready but it was truly a calm crossing. Bella had a good nap, as always and I got to pull my paints out after crossing the river and entering into the Pungo River, then the Alligator River-Pungo River Canal which meets up with the Alligator River, which is no small body of water either!
Thankfully, it was a calm day on the water.
Entering the AR-PR Canal. It is 20 miles long, narrow and lined with trees and full of wildlife, apparently. We have read that bear sightings are frequent. We didn't see any bear but did see an eagle. Sections of the canal have lots of tree stumps on the edge and out into the canal making it a bit tricky if passing another boat. Thankfully, no tugs and barges today!
We had a very uneventful trip up the canal and Alligator River except for a couple of fast motor yachts that didn't slow down and gave us (and others) bad wakes. 👎
We decided to go ahead and go through the swing bridge and anchor on the other side as the winds were favorable for that spot and it put us close to the sound for an early departure.
There was a small tug and work barge going south at the same time as us going north. It worked out the bridge tender would open for both of us, and being a swing bridge, there were 2 channels to pass through and she instructed us to use the east and the tug to use the west. Just as we were about to enter the bridge, she yells at us to NOT go on the east channel (as instructed to) because it looks like the tug/barge was going into the east one. We were watching that as well, wondering... but the tug captain quickly came back and said "NO, I am going on the west, just having trouble lining up." So the bridge tender made the mistake of not checking with the barge before changing her instructions to us at the too late point! That puckered us up a bit but the tender should've confirmed before changing the rules (incorrectly) at the last minute. Tug got through but was challenged with the wind and current going through the bridge opening, as were we.
Cute little thing!
We are back in the world of crab-a-poolza and had to dodge the mine field to our anchorage. We anchored at 4:40 off the southeast land in between several suggested anchorage spots.
Below, I figured out how to add a red line with our travel for the day.
Mile Marker: 83
Miles traveled today: 70
Total: 410.3
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