Dowry Creek Marina - We see the sun for the first time in days

 

The store is better stocked than I would have expected at a marina 

The wind is no where near slowing down yet but at least we saw the sun today! Our enclosure in the cockpit heated up real nice, into the 70s which expands the room on the boat by 2x. I updated two Bob423 tracks which took a couple of hours. It requires great care in generating a new track to be sure it’s accurate, a lot of people depend on the tracks.

They also carry fresh shrimp but with the heads on

One of the unexpected attractions in the marina is the excellent marina store. It’s similar to a 7/11 type convenience store but I think it’s even better. They carry a wide variety of goods and concentrate on the types of groceries needed by boaters like milk, eggs, bread, sandwich meat, cheeses, beer, wine, and a lot more. I would say it’s the most complete convenience store on the ICW that’s part of a marina. 

The food staples are well represented 

The WiFi here is fine during the day but on weekends when the wind is howling and everybody gets on the internet at the same time, it really slows down, understandably. Last night, we were still able to stream our shows over Amazon Prime. During the day, it’s no problem. I usually get about 5 to 10 Mbps but it drops to 3 Mbps at night. 

There are many more items not covered like beer, wine, crabmeat, repeatable fast foods, etc. 

The weather forecast has not changed, we are still looking at Friday to leave for Alligator River Marina and the next day to cross the Albemarle to Coinjock. We are delayed but will be making progress soon.