Day 3: Coinjock, NC to Morehead City, NC

Coinjock was a very nice place. I must warn you about the bear and the deer though. We were told not to venture into town, for fear the the bear and the deer would get us. Must be some pretty wild deer down in NC. Another warning we got was from another boater who was going to stay in Coinjock for the next 3 days because the weather predictions involved some high winds. He recommended we do the same, but we pretty much ignored him. 

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Here is the sun rising on the North River. So how about that wind that guy was talking about? We certainly didn't see it here.

Well, that said, the Albemarl Sound, and subsequently the Alligator River, were pretty darn rough. Not as rough as the Chesapeake Bay was though, and this part of the trip was much shorter. Shown here is the Alligator River Highway Bridge (mm 84.2).

Here it is closing behind us. You can see that the water was a bit choppy.

The water had certainly calmed down by now. This is the Fairfield Highway Bridge (mm 114.0). It is listed as a single-pivot swing bridge with a 7 foot clearance, but obviously that one has been replaced with a nice new bridge.

This is the type of vegetation seen in the northern end of the Alligator River-Pungo River Canal.

As we got further south in the Canal, the vegetation got much denser, and greener.

Here is the Wilkerson Highway Bridge (mm 125.9).

This is the Belhaven Highway Bridge (mm 135.0). We didn't actually go under this bridge, but we stopped for fuel near it.

Here is the Core Creek Highway Bridge (mm 195.9).

As we got into the Beaufort Inlet, we saw some cool shrimp boats.

These are called the Newport Marshes. Here we got a little confused because there are two channels, one on each side of that marsh. We started down one, then turned around and took the other. It turns out the both went the same place, so we would have been safe either way.

Here is the US Route 70 Highway Bridge, with the Beaufort and Morehead City Railroad Bridge behind it (mm 203.9). This was where the two channels merged again. Shortly beyond this was the marina in Morehead City where we stayed the night.

Thanks to Kenny, I don't think any of us will ever forget Morehead City. We had a blast in a small restaurant/bar, then we took a cab to Atlantic Beach and played some pool with some marines. Then we had Domino's deliver a pizza to the boat. 

DAY 4

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