April 24, 20

Today was a test of  our wet weather knowledge  and endurance.  We knew a storm was

coming but not quite as wet and windy as this.  We got up at 6:00am to find that we had no electricity.

During the night the storm came and our electric chord was not covered on the dock.  The rain

got into the connection and fried our chord, and their box.

 We then had to leave the marina,  of coarse the wind was blowing and it was raining.  Luckily our slip mate was up and getting to leave also.  He helped with the lines and we hit the ICW at about 6:30 heading north.

The weather did not improve and the rain got heavier, good thing there were not many on the waterway.  Visibility was  not good.  We stopped at New River for diesel and the dock master told us we needed to find a place to hunker down, the weather was going to get nasty.  We turned the engines up and started truckin to Morehead City to beat the nasty part of the storm.  We were hoping when we went through Camp LeJune Marine Base they would not being practicing live fire at the shooting range, cuz we were going right through the middle of it.  We lucked out  and

no shooting and got to the marina at 1:30pm.  Of course the rain was still coming down, and the wind was still howling, but we were dry, safe and comfortable.  It is still pouring and wind howling 

and we are still happy and dry.  Over all I think it was a great day to be inside a boat in a marina.

Tomorrow I hope the weather is nicer.  I want to explore Moehead City and Beaufort, NC.

Camp Lejune firing range

targets on the ICW