We kept entertained in the local coffee shop, ....... and went to the Commodore Theater to see Argo. Built in 1945 and recently refurbished by a very nice Norfolkian. He has it set up with cafe tables where you order dinner using the old, heavy black telephones we grew up with. Nice experience that we will do next time through as well.
As soon as the aftermath of Sandy went north we headed south on the ICW to Oriental, NC, "the sailing capital of NC". But not before taking our instruments off the top of HD's mast to save having to replace them after getting clipped off by supposed to be 65' bridges.
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| Photo taken from the top of the mast after I removed the instruments! |
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| Ready for lift up the mast-this is when I remind Cin of how much I love her! (before she hoists me up) |
Oriental is physically a small town with a coffee shop across the street from the "free" town dock. Picture taken form the deck of the Coffee shop.
A great hardware store with bargain pricing on stainless steal screws and bolts, a nautical seamstress, a resale nautical shop with everything, and an extremely friendly Baptist Church. This all makes for an enjoyable 48 hours until the meter is up on the free dock.
Since we have migrated down the ICW to Morehead City where we spent election night holed from up the inclement weather with Margaret Smith doing endless loads of laundry.
We enjoyed the warm hospitality and catching up before shoving off towards Southport where we will meet up with Joe and Barbara Hauer for dinner and conversation.
