Heading north again

After almost a month at a dock in New Bern, NC we are once again under way, heading slowly towards home, and as strange as it may seem to say, we hope towards cooler temps.  They have had record high temps around here for the last week or so - 96 forecast for today!  We got a little spoiled, being able to go in the air-conditioned marina lounge periodically.  Now it's back to full sun and heat, and right now not enough wind to really sail.

Here's the golf course at Northwest Creek Marina.
The Master's Tournament of Roses was held here this year.

It was rather hard to leave the marina and some of our new friends this morning.  We first met three of the boats here mid-February in Long Island, and have traveled with them off and on for the past 4 months.  We also go to know people on several of the boats who dock here.  Of course our good friend Bill, who we stopped to see in the first place, wasn't here when we arrived, and then left as soon as we got back from Michigan.   I guess I can't be too hard on him as he did take us to the airport to get our rental car.  And he might try to catch up with us in the Chesapeake.

Here's our friend Margaret.  We first met in February on Long Island.
You might recognize her from "Cat Woman" or "The Fabulous Baker Boys".

Right now we're heading out to Ocracoke on the Outer Banks.  It might be too remote for cell coverage so maybe no blogs for a couple of days.  (Actually the marina we just left had such bad cell coverage that we had to go in the cockpit to use our phone, and friends could only use their phone from the starboard side of their boat.)

9:30 and it is already 87 degrees!!            It made it to around 98 this afternoon.

When you wear a fur coat all the time you don't have
 too many options for keeping cool.