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| Elizabeth City knows how to welcome boaters! |
The thing we like about the visitor's center in the Dismal
Swamp are the quiet nights. The wind cannot get at the boat since it's
surrounded by tall trees and there's no boat traffic since the locks are closed
at 3:00 pm, perfect stillness. The visitor's center has a special section just for boaters
with free WiFi and a loaner library. The adjacent wildlife center is open until
4:30 and free for our use. All in all a very good stopover.
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| We docked at the bulkhead this time around for easy access to a rental car by the crew |
We left around 10:00 to make the 11:00 am lock opening and
then motored on to Elizabeth City. We took the bulkhead dock just west of the
bridge so our crew would have easy access to a parking area for pickup on
Monday by Enterprise Rent-A-Car for their drive home. We'll be without crew for
awhile.
On Monday we're headed for Alligator River Marina and then
on to the Pungo River anchorage to arrive at Liz and Don Bunch's condo by
Wednesday if the weather holds up and nothing else sets the plans amiss.
They've reserved a slip for our use while there so we'll rest up a bit before
continuing south again.
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Another quiz!!
You're headed south down the ICW which normally requires
passing red markers on the starboard side and green markers on the port side.
In exiting the Dismal Swamp canal you see the markers as pictured below. What
do you do?
A. Yeah, I can
tell red from green, I've been passing reds to starboard for 100's of miles and by God I'm going to keep doing that!
B. Nevermind the
colors, pay attention to the yellow shapes. Pass yellow triangles to starboard
no matter the color of the markers and the yellow squares to port.
C. Look at your
chartplotter, follow a line between the two sets of markers no matter the
colors
Answer tomorrow.
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| Red marker, yellow square? |
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| Green marker, yellow triangle? |
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