Smells of Fall

Our friendly marina offered a courtesy car, we got lots of errands done in our allotted two hours, then made our way to Wrightsville Beach.

At Anchor, Wrightsville Beach, NC

We had a lovely couple of days in Wrightsville Beach-- for those of you not familiar with NC geography, Wrightsville is about 20 minutes by car from Wilmington, where we spent seemingly months on end while waiting for our repowering to be finished. We have been asking ourselves why we spent so little time there during our Wilmington odyssey, but I guess the answer is obvious--we were quite preoccupied with other pressing matters!

The beach there is a lovely one, typical of mid-Atlantic beaches, white sand, long unbroken expanses for walks and beachcombing, shore birds, and waves favored by the surfers in the region. Our anchorage was a short dinghy ride to a public landing and quite in the center of things. Our two days were full and we were even able to locate friends made during our Bennett Bros stay and had a lovely impromptu dinner out with them (the company far more special than the food!)

The Beach at  Wrightsville Beach

Carry On is sitting on the dock near Southport, NC in St James Plantation, where we're visiting friends we met last summer in Maine. We had stopped by to admire their Pacific Seacraft 40 in Rockland Harbor from our dinghy, which led to drinks and then dinner several evenings.

It's a beautiful November afternoon here and I took a walk around this lovely, quiet community accompanied by the Liebeslieder Waltzes on my ipod-- in the air, smells of dry leaves, pine needles and autumn.