roweboatadventures: BELHAVEN to MANTEO / Sunday, April 10 to Monday, April 11 (Days 80-81)

Admiral's Log: 7:35 am, Sun. 4/10/16
Temp: 36
Winds: 6 mph
Speed: 6.6

Brrrr, cold start, of course we are driving from inside. We proceeded up the Pungo River Canal to the Alligator River Swing Bridge to the Albermarle Sound. We had to go through a huge swing bridge.

Lots of stumps to watch out for.

Bridge before and after it swings open.

The Albermarle Sound was missing quite a few markers and there were tons of crab pots and fish pots or fish sticks we called them. We had never seen these before, but at high tide it's got to be pretty sketchy, requiring quite a bit of attention and concentration getting through here.

We took this side trip to Manteo (pronounced Man-ee-o, no T) in the Outer Banks to visit fellow Kubota dealers from Delaware; Mark and CeCe Babbitt, who have a second home in Kitty Hawk. They met us just as we were docking at 2:30. This is a really nice marina, very close to restaurants and shops and a cute town. I told Mike I would not mind having a second house here. That did not go over too well. Haha.

Love these old homes with such character.

Since it was not quite "in season" yet, we had to drive around until we found a restaurant open. But we had a good meal and better company. We spend the night at Mark and CeCe's adorable home.

Monday, CeCe cooked us a late breakfast which was delicious. They took us to see the Currituck Lighthouse, so I can add to my collection. The Outer Banks have several operating Lighthouses, which I hope we can get to while we are in the area.

Currituck Lighthouse

We then went to the Wright Brothers Museum National Park. Pretty amazing the principles they discovered are what propels most all flying machines today.
For lunch they took us to a cute place on the water. Poor Richards, for reuben's and clam chowder. We said good bye and made plans to meet for dinner when we are in Annapolis in a few weeks.