May 27-28, 2017 – Saturday & Sunday
We broke our prime directive, don’t have a schedule. For insurance purposes, we have to be above the 35th parallel by June 1 and we are now hurrying up the ICW on Memorial Day weekend. What is that like? If you are there to play, it is all you hoped for, a ton of fun. If you are trying to get from point A to point B, it is like being in a washtub with every type of motor vessel passing you on both sides. For two days we have felt like we are running rapids.
As we crossed Cape Fear River at Southport we could see the Oak Island Lighthouse, which is one of the newest lighthouses in the US. It features four 2.5 million candlepower aerobeacon lenses which produce four, one-second bursts of light every ten seconds.
The Carolina Bays Parkway Bridge anticipated a May 2017 completion, as you can tell from the picture, that is not going to happen.
We have thunder, lighting and rain tonight, but we are snug as a bug, at Habour Village Marina.
Note: From 1620-1720 pirates plied these waters, captains of merchant ships learned to spot the highest mast, or Tops’ls, of pirate ships in order to outrun the looters, hence the name Topsail. It is said that the infamous Blackbeard launched some of his most famous attacks from here. For years treasure hunters searched for buried treasure on the island.
