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We have been in very isolated areas the poast few days, with no cell-phone covergae, so I’ve not been able to update teh Blog for a few days now.

We had a very calm evening on the anchorage – a little rain during the night. We got off to an early start, and headed up the narrow canals in the Bogue Sound. About Noon we were approaching Morehead City, and decided we needed to stock up provisions, so we called one of the Marinas, Gulf Dock, and headed up the shallow passage, just deep enough at high tide tgo get us in. We had to wait about 1/2 hour for 2 other bpats top make room for us, and then tied up to get fuel and Ice. While Gerry stayed on the boat, I took a Taxi to Lowes Grocvery store about 3 miles away, and stocked up on provisions. I had to call the cab again to collect me. WE got away at about 3, having spent about 3 hours.

Soon we were into teh Neuse River, a broad expanse of water, but quite deep, whcih was a nice change. We had the awning up, and the Auto Pilot working, so the sail was pleasant and we could keep out of the sun.

At nightfall we anchored in a quiet spot jsu before we had to enter another narrow channel. We’d had a good day, covering about 85 mile sin spite of teh 3-hour side-trip.