Belhaven has signal!

We awoke to a very misty morning.  It was also very dewy!  So, while Dan and Pete took the dogs ashore Kathy and I started wiping down everything on deck!  Dan took his camera because he had commented  the evening before how beautiful the trip ashore had been.

As they left, we hoped they would be able to find their way.  Pete took his iPad with the GPS
to help navigate.

By the time they returned the fog had burned off and we had the cockpit and dodger windows clear and dry.

By 9 am we were ready to back track to the entrance of the Alligator River/Pungo River Canal
and head down the Pungo River to Belhaven.

Ragtime and Sevilla had stopped and anchored at the entrance to the canal and were already on their way by the time we got underway.  The trip was only 32 miles so we were anchored off of Belhaven by 2 pm.  We rafted again with Pekabu III because Dan wanted to dive down and check our prop.  We don't seem to going as fast as we expect to be going.  Pete and Kathy hit something submerged right after leaving the Dismal Swamp and it has caused their steering to become very tight, so Dan offered to take a look at that too.  We dinghied ashore to take the dogs and to check on the other two who took slips at River Forest Marina then headed out to set up the hookah system for Dan's dive.  The air temperature was in the 70's, but the water was in the 50's so he put on his wet suit for the dive.  The tannin in the water made it nearly impossible to see anything, but he scraped our prop and determined there wasn't anything obvious wrong with Pekabu's rudder.  We had a time fighting flies and were driven below early.  

We spotted very little wildlife  along the canal today, a few kingfishers and this eagle.

~~~_/)~~~M&D