You can monitor my trip at the link: Second Winds Progress Live
We stayed at the South
Harbor Village Marina for today. So,
like other layover days, it was a day of getting caught up on chores around the
boat and cleaning. I again struggled
with the internet here. I could get a great
signal at the dock desk, however, it is outside and the reflection was such
that I could not see the curser on the screen and finally gave up in
frustration.
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| The Dead End Saloon where we dined last night. |
I needed to mail my
camera lenses back to my son Scott so I talked with the dock hand and he said
that there was a Pack and Ship store not too far down the road towards the town
of Southport. He gave me a card for the
local cab but since it wasn’t all that far, I decided just to walk.
The walk for the first
mile was a pleasant stroll through a neighborhood of nice homes and also past a
really beautiful park. At the
intersection of the next road, I was told to turn right. That road turned out
to be a very busy highway and there was no sidewalk or wide berm on which to
walk so I walked through high weeds, across parking lot entrances,
mowed lawns
and gravel driveways. It turned out to
be a long uncomfortable trip.
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| There are some big ones out here |
I finally found the
packaging store, mailed my box and headed across a 4 lane highway to a large
Lowes Grocery store where I bought a number of items the supply of which I had
depleted. Of course, like a kid in a candy store, I bought a number of other
items that looked appealing at the time.
I spent quite a bit more that what I anticipated when I entered to buy
my two rolls of paper towels.
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| The start of the day two days ago |
I took the cab back to
the marina.
My next project was to
see if I could get Sam’s little Honda outboard to run. I went on line to try to determine a solution
and found very little help. I probably
spent an hour trying to solve the problem but in the end it was not much better
than when I started. I did get it to
idle but only with the choke fully out and as soon as you advanced the
throttle, the engine would die if you didn’t finesse the choke. I would be hard to navigate with it in this
condition. She is going to have to take
it to a dealer.
I then did a scrub down
on the boat. I am amazed at how filthy
it gets running on what I assume to be clean water. I also spent time cleaning the inside and
restoring items that had been taken out of their hiding places.
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| My friends Sam and Phil on Sweet Pea |
At a bit after 5:00 one
of the guys invited a group of us to join him shucking oysters. He bought a peck (I later learned that a peck
is ¼ of a bushel) of oysters for about $27.00 from a local fresh seafood
dealer. I got the hang of shucking them
as we opened probable 40 or so of these morsels. The fellow’s wife prepared a horse radish
sauce to enhance them. Considering the
price that one pays in a restaurant for oysters on the half shell it was quite
a deal. I enjoyed my share.
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| The Waterway from the dock office |
From there, about 20 of
our group went to a fine Italian restaurant where we had a really great time
and a really great meal. I had Italian
sausage on linguini with marinara sauce.
Our waiter was most entertaining and skilled. The whole evening was great talking and
laughing with my new traveling companions.
I was tired and ready
for bed when the 9:00 hour arrived.
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