June17, 2012 Beaufort, NC

Hopefully we can sail out of Beaufort tomorrow morning and head to Oriental, N.C. on the intercoastal waterway a trip of about 30 miles. We have been here at Beaufort for a week, waiting for the north winds to decrease and clock around to the south. Over the past few days we have been walking around the historic district. Below, is my salute to Blackbeard.  The maritime museum is a great place to look at some of the "treasures" that have been pulled up from Blackbeard's boat, Queen Ann Revenge.

How about the whale skeleton hanging in the rafters of the maritime museum!  At one time Beaufort was a big whaling center with the whales a few miles off shore.

On our way back to our boat, we walked around the town docks close to some of the condo's.

Many of the houses in the historic district have these lovely picket fences.

Below is the top winning prize of a slightly less then 500 lb blue marlin that was captured in the Big Rock Fishing Tournament.



The winner of the tournament (picture from http://www.thebigrock.com/) for $440,000.  The boat next to us in the Town Creek Marina, Can Do Too from NJ won the Dolphin class so we had a lot of excitement on our dock.



Here are some of the boats that participated in the Big Rock tied up at the Beaufort Town Dock.  As you can see these folks are serious about their fishing.

 

How about a horse drawn carriage? Want to ride? Even the horses are into the pirate scene as you can see.