Nov 4, Wednesday. We have been incommunicato for a couple of days - no phone, no Internet and no wireless. Tonight we are anchored just outside the ICW in Bay River, NC. Tomorrow we hope to make Beaufort, NC. We need to keep putting the miles on while the weather is good. Today was another sunny day in the mid 60's. Some wind, but in the narrow canals of the ICW it is difficult with sails up. We traveled through a wild life preserve today. It was beautiful. We saw Bald Eagles and many other birds. We are now seeing familiar faces as we travel - or should I say boats, or both. We traveled again today with another 30' sailboat that has knowledge of the course. We took the dinghy over to their boat for cocktails this evening. Early to bed and early to rise with the time change. Hopefully tomorrow we can communicate with our world.

Nov 5th and 6th. We stopped in Beaufort, NC on the 5th. Did grocery shopping, watered up, washed the dirty boat and had soft shell crab sandwiches for dinner. Delicious! It was another beautiful sunny day. We watches the dolphins play around the boat as we cruised the ICW.

On the 6th we left Beauford bound for Swan Point - Jacksonville, NC. Just a little marina with a lot of shrimp boats. We passed a Vt boat with two pups aboard. We watched the pelicans in action. Passed Camp Lajeune Marine reserve where they were playing all sorts of war games. Today was sunny, but cold all day. We just need to keep putting on those southbound miles.