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| Page Views: 2,151 Last Visit to Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge: April, 2001 | Alligator River North to Coinjock April 2001 by grandmaR - last update: Apr 11, 2005 |
| Alligator Pungo Canal 2003 |
We pull out the sails again and sail down the Alligator - actually turn the engine off. Finally have to turn it on again and pull in the sails when we see the bridge. We see SEA BONDS ahead of us, and he goes through the Alligator River swing bridge. We are going to the Alligator River Marina, but SEA BONDS is worried about the weather tomorrow - supposed to be thunderstorms, and he is worried he won't be able to cross Albemarle Sound. So he goes on across, while we stop. We get 35 gals of diesel, and tie up after 49.3 miles at 7.0 mph. Our max speed was 8.8 mph. |
| Tug and Dredge on Alligator River 2003 |
I called our son the trucker and told him we were at a truck stop, and that's what it was. The bathrooms and showers were nice, but the washers only had cold water so we will wait until tomorrow to do the wash, and the lights were on a timer so Bob was in there taking a long hot shower and they went out leaving him in the dark. They have a data port for 800#s for email and internet. We had dinner here at the truck stop. The menu was limited but the food was good, and the promised riverfront dining actually did have tables that looked out toward the bridge so we could watch the river, and also the people coming in to the marina, some of whose docking maneuvers provided a lot of amusement for us. One guy in a small trawler with two engines AND bowthursters couldn't turn around to get fuel and was stuck across the channel keeping a catamaran sailboat from getting in. I thought for sure there's be a collision. But there wasn't. The water in the river outside the marina breakwaters was really rough, but all was nice an calm where we were. They also give you a morning paper, and they have real ice cream for cones (about 8 flavors). I had one when we got in and one after dinner. Along the side where we were spaced a couple slips apart was a small motor boat named AUGUST MOON from Galesville, which was there for 3 days, and then a trawler came in named LADY MARU, and then the incompetent guy with multi crew and engines and bowthrusters named FIRST TEE, and then us, and then the catamaran that came in behind FIRST TEE, named FIRENZE, a Packet Cat from Norfolk. He really rocked and rolled much more than I thought a catamaran would. There was another power boat at the end. The big yacht named MOVIN ON was on the face dock. |
| Alligator River Swing Bridge |
Friday the 13th. FIRST TEE, and MOVIN ON were underway early. FIRENZE pulled out ahead of us. Bob unhooked us and brought the paper they had delivered off the dock, and we pulled out before 7. I called the bridge and told them we were going south, as the exit channel for the marina is right next to the bridge. SEA BONDS had worried about forecast thunderstorms for this afternoon, so I worried too. We heard him on the radio, and apparently he anchored in Broad Creek. He had about a 10 minute rainstorm this morning. Next Coinjock |
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acemj Sun Jan 8, 2006 16:25 UTC
Love that sunset picture over the river. Another great truck stop too! | grandmaR Mon Jan 19, 2004 18:00 UTC
It's the Alligator River, not the Alligator Refuge. I didn't name the river | mrclay2000 Tue Dec 23, 2003 00:44 UTC
And here I was looking for the actual reptile. . .you baited me, Rosalie. |
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