The high winds diminished during the night enough for us to cross Albemarle Sound. We hurriedly prepared to leave. We took Sailor to shore, raised the dinghy and outboard and pulled the anchor in less than an hour and were underway by 0815. We backtracked out of East lake using the navigation program. I don’t think we could have gotten in or out of the Lake without the program because the route was circuitous and shallow.
By the time we reached Albemarle Sound the wind had picked up some making the Sound choppy with white caps.
Rather than going all the way to Edenton, NC we decided to cross the Sound and go up Little River and anchor. Both the Sound and Little River were cluttered with crab traps so we had to maintain a constant watch and change course frequently. It would have been easy to overlook one of the trap’s buoys and wind the line and the trap on Seascape’s shaft and propeller.
We found a place to anchor among the crab traps near a sandy shore where we could take Sailor. About 1730 we went for a ride in the dinghy up Little River to Deep Creek. Tim Smith, one of our friends from when we lived in Vero Beach, has a new home on the Creek. Tim’s parents, Dave and Helen, keep their 44 foot Voyage catamaran tied up at his house. We found his house and the sailboat and turned around to head back to Seascape since we knew no one was home.
On the way back we pulled up to a sandy place along the shore of Little River near where we were anchored and found a very large dead dolphin washed up on the beach. When we got to the boat I called Billy Brooks, who I used to work with, and asked him to notify the state biologists about the dead animal. They should be able to locate it with the GPS coordinates. The evening and night turned out to be very pleasant at anchor.
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