OUR PLAN

We are writing this blog for one reason and one reason only. To provide a vehicle to make it easier to remain in touch with our family and friends back home.



Our plan is simple. Depart our home port of Goderich, Ontario in the Summer of 2011. Cruise Georgian Bay and the North Channel of Lake Huron while visiting some of the ports and anchorages we have missed over the years. As well as revisiting some of our favourite haunts hopefully with some of our very good friends with whom we have cruised with many times before. All the while adding up the miles and gaining experience with our new trawler. Our first and only self imposed deadline is to be in the Chicago area around Labour Day. South of Chicago, weather and circumstances will guide us!



Wednesday, June 26, 2013

MAY 28-29,2013- ELIZABETH CITY & DISMAL SWAMP, NC


After a calm day on the Alligator River the day before, we were hoping again for calm seas when crossing the Albemarle Sound up to Elizabeth City.  We were cautioned that the Albemarle Sound can be uncomfortable because any wind from any direction coupled with the shallow depth of the wide ocean inlet will kick up the seas.  As it turned out, it was not unlike an afternoon on Lake Huron with 3-4 feet choppy waves on the beam – not ideal, but doable.

We docked at the Mariners’ Wharf at Elizabeth City for no charge.  We were the only vessel on the wharf and we decided to stay aboard Terrmar rather than go exploring.  Although situated alongside a beautiful park we also had a group of men loitering in an isolated corner of the park at the bow of our boat all afternoon and into the evening.

At sunrise we caught an early bridge opening and started up the Great Dismal Swamp Canal.  It was an 8 hour day on the water with a lock at the south and north end of the long, narrow, shallow, winding part of the ICW.  Originally purchased by a group of business men including George Washington in the 1700s to harvest timber, today this canal has been preserved as a National Wildlife Refuge. 

Terri
Leaving Alligator Marina @ sunrise

Mariners' Wharf Elizabeth City

Terrmar tied to Mariners'  Wharf

Great Dismal Swamp Canal

Looking back at Dismal Swamp

Turtles sunning in the swamp

Yes I remember locking!

Tight squeeze on the canal

Leaving North Carolina, entering Virginia
  

   

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