Perfect timing for Washington, NC

We've made connections with our friend from back in Michigan 20 years ago.  Karl had a dock at the same place we docked our first boats.  Since then Karl and his wife Treva moved to North Carolina.  They have two daughters and a business here in Washington.

It turns out Washington is having a  "Smoke on the Water" weekend.  Chili cookers and bar-b-quers are here for a chili cook off and a bar-b-q cook off.  Somebody told us that these cookers come from all over the country - from the chili and bar-b-q circuit (not that we'd ever heard of such a thing - I thought chili came out of a can!)  They have music in the street, a free movie, a dunk tank, and my favorite, a pig parade.  I'm curious to find out if the parading pigs end up on plates.  They start cooking the pigs tonight at 8:00 and cook them all night long.  Our boat is down wind, so should be interesting.  We ended up getting one of the last free docks, right next to the movie screen.  And the weather is perfectly gorgeous, so things have worked out pretty well.  And just think, if we hadn't sailed from New York City to Atlantic City the day we did we would have missed out on this weekend.

A rare view of Fluff (on right) with the boat underway.  Normally he would be burrowed totally in the sleeping bag. 

Another boat following us in the Alligator-Pungo Canal.  Basically a 20 mile, straight line canal.

Tomorrow I'll have a picture or two, hopefully of the pig parade.