Day 287: All Treats and No Tricks

Coinjock Marina to Pungo River, near Scranton, NC (anchored)

October 31, 2022

We, as well as many others, left Coinjock once the sun came up.

Calm days are both a trick and a treat – it’s a treat because we don’t get bounced around (which I really appreciate) but it’s a trick because we can’t sail (which John does not appreciate).

Calm water means that I can comfortably be below while we are enroute. Today I was able to make some boatmeal cookies with craisins. The oven is little, so I make a half-batch, bake half of that and refrigerate the rest of the dough. In a few days, I can bake the rest.

Even the Albermarle Sound was easy going today (although it would have been fun to get Lailia’s sails up).

There were two boats ahead of us near the Alligator River Bridge – they called us via VHF and said that they would wait so the bridge tender would only have to open up once.

The ICW south of the Alligator River goes through the Alligator/Pungo RIver Canal. It’s another long, narrow cut (ditch) that goes through miles of remote spaces. We (I) stay on the lookout for wildlife as I have read that there are bears here (and they are on my bucket list). They’re still on my bucket list…

Today we traveled about 77 miles, which is the longest trip we have taken together on Lailia. This meant traveling until the sun had nearly set to get out of the ditch and into a wide-open anchorage.

We’re tucked in this really beautiful wide space where there’s a couple other boats anchored. We have enough room to know they’re there but we’re spaced out enough to not hear anyone.

Rain is forecast for tomorrow but it will still be fairly warm. We may try to stop in Oriental, NC.