CODA : Over the edge to North Carolina.
9 April 2025
Carolina Beach Mooring Field, Carolina Beach, North Carolina
Coda is over to the right in the mooring field.
Marc- Today was a relatively cold and blustery day. We started out at 49 degrees and northeast wind at 20 knots. A 20 knot headwind is not much of an issue is the narrow parts of the ICW where we spent 2/3 of our day. Unfortunately we needed to go up the wide Cape Fear River to reach Snow's Cut. It was rough with whitecaps and 2 foot waves and a 3 knot counter current as we entered and proceeded up river for the next 2 1/2 hours. Instead of traveling at our usual 7 knots or above, we were making 4 knots and the boat was constantly covered in salt spray. Of course Coda with its big diesel just plows through this and we are inside of a cozy dry and warm pilot house. The people on the few sailboats we passed looked absolutely miserable. I had hoped to stop at the Carolina Beach State Park Marina at the entrance to Snows Cut but its entrance is not passable for Coda at low tide when we arrived. We marched onward through the Cut to Carolina Beach and its beach front village.
Nice start.
Coming out of the marina basin in Little River. The lighthouse does distinguish it from other places.
The lighthouse sort of welcomes you from the ICW.
We managed somehow to pass this ship boat in the ICW this morning. I know not why the shrimp boats like to travel with their arms out.
Our next encounter was a US Coast Guard body tenter and its barge doing
aids to navigation maintenance.
This is a rather large rig that can just hover in one place.
They replaced a reflective panel on the green daymark.
We encountered this ships in the upper Cape Fear River with calmer seas.
A rather nice nautical display of fisherman trap boys at the Harbormaster's Office in Carolina Beach.
I should have included this in yesterday's blog where we found the turtles.
These loggerhead, Kemp's ridley, green and leatherback sea turtles can be found in South Carolina's near shore waters, or nesting on beaches from April through November.
No turtles today only pelicans.
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