Myrtle Beach to Baltimore

June 29, 2009: We have had 8 great days on the water leaving Myrtle Beach on a calm, warm day docking at Bald Head Island, N,C the first night and then to Wilmington, NC, which is a charming little town. The a-c unit for the pilot house lost all of its freon from a pin-hole leak, so we had to spend an extra day in Wilimington to have the a-c unit repaired. We toured a coast guard cutter that was moored practically next to us.

We traveled further up the North Carolina coast stopping in Swansboro, Belhaven and Elizabeth City. We took the Dismal Swamp route from Elizabeth City to Norfolk, which was a beautiful trip on deeply wooded, narrow body of water. We saw a bald eagle and a blue heron crossed our bow at eye level, which was a spectactular sight. We also experienced traversing two locks for thefirst time, a far cry from the Panama Canal, but exciting to us.

Did you know the Army has ships? We saw them in Belhaven and shared a dock.

We also shared the dock with a paddle wheeler that was being taken from Wilmington to Brooklyn, NY to be lived on.

Next stop was Norfolk and Leigh Ann had to leave us, but we are looking forward to seeing her and Greg in Baltimore in a few days. We stayed in Norfolk for 2 days giving us time to have lunch with Heath's brother, Neil, and we toured the battleship Wisconsin.