Wednesday, November 15, 2006

We are out of the intercoastal waterway and are docked at the Town Dock of Beaufort, N.C. We can look out and see the Atlantic Ocean once again. The last two days on the intercoastal waterway we had the pleasure of having dolphins swimming around the boat! They came very close to the starboard side and starled me when they came up and then nosedived under the bow wave. We tried to take a picture of them but they were too quick diving and playing in the waves.

Beaufort is a picturesque sea side town with an interesting maritime museum which we visited this afternoon. The museum (http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/maritime/) includes a unique world wide shell collection, boat building displays of local fishing boats, and pieces from the wreck of Blackbeard's flag ship Queen Ann's Revenge. We arrived inBeaufort this morning and will be here a few days as there is a rain storm with 30-35 knot winds and gusts to 40 passing through the region on Thursday. The docks are filling up with boats as everyone is looking for a save refuge.

This was the antique boat that we had in yesterday's blog passing us on one of the many bays we had to traverse.













Fishing fleet in the intercoastal canal. You can see the tugboat and barge which just past us going north under the bridge.











Several of the lovely homes along the water front in Beaufort. Many of the homes were built in the late 1700's or early 1800's.