We sadly left our Beaufort mooring, we had to get diesel and fill up with water before we set out. We had an easy time pulling up to the fuel dock with the wind and tide in our favor. I left the boat to go and pay for the fuel and throw away trash, and when I came back the guy who was moored next to us was on the dock talking to Chris. I got back on the boat and threw my crocs in the dinghy which hangs from the davits on the back of the boat (that is where we keep our shoes, that way we never forget them when we go to shore, which has been know to happen before we established that routine). Anyways, I got back on to the boat with Dahlia and slipped off my crocs and tossed them into the dinghy. One of my crocs tried to escape, Jim saw it fall into the water too. He jumped onto the transom and tried to reach out with his leg to get it. It was too far so he reached his leg out further and further. Then it was like watching slow motion, "ooooohhhh nnnnooooo JJJJJiiiiiiimmmmm"!! He fell right in the water! I felt terrible, not only was he soaking wet on my account, but he had his cell phone in his pocket too!
I hope Jim's day got better, ours turned out pretty good. We made it to Belhaven, NC. Which was a good distance to travel in a day! There was just one section on the Neuse River which is just off Pamlico Sound that we were all on the verge of going insane. There was a 6 knot trailing wind and we were traveling at 6 knots, which translates to NO breeze at all. The temperature in the saloon of the boat was 100 degrees, and it wasn't that much cooler in the cockpit. To add insult to injury, we were swarmed by green head flies. We made a game of how many each of us could kill. This is where we started to cross the line of sanity, when some of the flies didn't die from swatting, we would take great pleasure in tearing one wing off to let them suffer. Sick...I know, but their suffering helped ease our suffering. Plus, it is hard to feel sympathy for something that just keeps biting you!
We got in around 7pm and while we were anchoring Dahlia fell asleep in her chair, it must have been a long day for her as well!
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