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Elizabeth City to Oriental
Here are 3 videos to take you from Elizabeth City to Oriental via several rivers, two Sounds and a long canal.
1. Elizabeth City to the Pungo River
2. Weighing Anchor
3. Arriving in Oriental on Ruth's Birthday!
Posted from Savannah, GA. : )
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CREDO, Rule of Life and so on
... is Church on Sunday and sometimey prayer. You might say the Lord’s Prayer at night and call it a day. Well part of establishing a rule would be looking at this. Say, you ask yourself "What type of relationship do I have?" “What type of relationship do I yearn to have?” and then think about what you can do to get there. That’s what most people think about a rule but there are other things. How are you ...
Last Day at the Beach
... rangers who helped them make it to the sea. By late
morning, we decided it was time to go. We had gotten a little sun-burned the day before and the bright sun today was irritating. So we carried our stuff back across the beach and up to the bath house and then down to the ferry dock. While waiting for the ferry, we saw an anole and a mantis at the shelter. Once back on the mainland, we packed up the car and headed ...
Birthday at the Beach
... is having dinner on the beach and watching the sunset over Bear Inlet. Unfortunately, some pesky flying insects made it difficult to eat, so we went closer to the shore and away from the bugs. There wasn't much of a breeze to keep the bugs away, but they weren't present by the water's edge. We ate dinner, including a camping cheesecake meal for Sandy's birthday down at the shore to avoid the bugs. Then we went back to the bath house and took a warm shower before retiring for the ...
Rainy Day at the Beach
... hiked the rest of
the stuff in and quickly got in the tent. It was raining heavily now and
the tent was slightly leaking, so we used a tarp and a sun shelter to
cover the tent and managed to stay dry for the night, even as the rain
and wind got stronger throughout the night. It was quite a storm - the
lightning was making a fabulous light show in the night sky. But we did
not leave the shelter of our tent again that ...