WOW DAY 100Day 99 - 100 / 899 Statutory Miles Covered - Carolina Beach, NC

****WOW!!!  Carolina Beach marks Day 100****

Myrtle Beach to Carolina Beach:

Watch:  Mrs. Middleton

Distance:  ~ 48 miles

Time:  ~ 7 hours

Navigational notes:  Snows cut can be thin on either end.  Try to catch the current on the Cape Fear River or it will be slow going. No bridges.  

Fun Fact:  Traveled roughly 48 miles today and made only 13 miles northern progression.

Hard to believe we've been at this for 100 days.  Seems like just yesterday and at the same time seems like this is the way it's always been.  None the less - Holy Smokes!!!

The trip from Myrtle Beach to Carolina Beach was fairly straight forward.  The scenery was largely developed with houses, condos, restaurants & bars along each side.  We passed through several inlets (Shallots & Lockwood Ferry), where the ocean was Bam!  right there.  

Making our way up the Cape Fear River, which is a major commercial channel was interesting to say the least.  We encountered tugs, ferries and a tanker along the way.  The tanker took up the entire channel causing us to run outside for most of it, but hey - he was significantly bigger than we were. (Dennis here- Becky might not be telling the whole story.  As the tanker was coming toward us it was making her very nervous.  And when Becky gets nervous she talks.  A lot!  Finally unable to hold it in she yelled out CAREFUL WE DON'T GET SUCKED INTO THE JET WASH! Jet wash I thought??  So I now have Goose from Top Gun standing behind the captains chair yelling at me about Jet Wash! After I assured her that we would be ok and the tanker passed harmlessly by I looked at her and just started to laugh and with a smile she looked at me and said she can't believe she had said that out load.)    

Stayed for 2 nights in Carolina Beach, which is your quintessential beach town.  It reminded us both a lot of Ocean Isle.  About 100 yards from the boat was a municipal day dock with public access to the ocean.  We spent the afternoon walking the beach and playing in the water.  After we dinghied a bit farther up the cove, to a local fish shack with good food and cold beer.  Remember, that taking dingy rides is one of my favorite things to do and today I got hours of it! :-)


This place is a hidden gem, the mooring field is about 2 years old, easy to reach moorings and spectacular views in a well protected cove.  We will be back here again!

WW: ~30

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