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Off to anothe early start, we entererd the narrow cut and covered a few miles before crossing the Pamlico river, then along the Pungo River, then a long stretch of beautiful canal – almost felt like we were sailing up the Amazon!

Then into the Alligator river – not that we say any alligators, and at about 6pm, after about 80 miles, we anchored in a nice shallow area before tackling another stretch of open water. We anchored close to a number of Duck Hides, ion stilts in teh middle of the wide open river! Tonight we had to make a decision about which of the two alternate route to take – both about the same distance.

One was to the right, through long narrow stretches via Coinjock, and looked a little boring, vs. the otgehr across open stretches of water, and eventually going down the Great Dismal Swamp, whcih was recently opened, and had two locks we would have to get through – we both wanted to have that experience, so we chose that route.