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July 20th 2012

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Raising the Mainsail

The beginning of an over-nighter to Cape Fear.

Our best read blog since we started cruising 3 years ago has been about Carolina Beach. As we wind the film backwards we are taking another look at CB and finding things are looking up here.

From our narrow boaters perspective... there are now mooring balls! Woohoo. We read about them in a boating mag a few weeks ago. Without this heads-up we might have been hesitiant to come here again and drag boat butt onto another shoal. A problem for cruisers in civilized or developed harbours is that the harbour has been dredged. That should be good. But unfortunately when the bottom is dregded it doesn't leave anything on top of the clay pan to grab onto, except maybe a thin layer of sediment, which is a bit like trying to anchor in chocolate pudding.

We came here for a day or two, a week ago, with the intention of visiting our harbour angel, Joanne, who transformed our boating nightmare into a happy life in 2009. We have kept in touch and have been able to continue our friendship with Joanne, as we had hoped. As an aside, boating often makes me think of the stories I've heard

Joanne, Harbour Angel

At work where we first met her when Frank was injured.

and read, of ancestors and friends, who ventured out from their homelands to new countries. They find new friends, leaving love ones behind. Fortunately, with the miracle of electronic commmunication, we are able to offer enough tenuous TLC to help new friend sprouts and shoots grow while tending to the life-giving roots in older gardens 'back home'.

We had a chance to go back to the Shoreview Urgent Care, just south of the Snow's Cut Bridge in Carolina Beach to thank the excellent doctors who helped us through Frank's heel injury 3 years ago. If you think about it, medical professionals, like most people in the caring professions have more than their share edgey situations and perhaps not enough koodos. We were glad to be able to give a good report. Dr. Mike Murphy was off shift but we were very happy to see Dr Eddie Rosado again. He looks like he is doing well. He says he is not photogenic and we also forgot the camera, so you will have to wait 'til he visits Halifax to see his picture.

There is a funny leapfrog effect that I haven't resolved about travelling and blogging. If I had

Carolina Beach waterfront

High density and lots of great family activity

time I would read other blogs to see how to incorporate the 'old' stuff from the last area that happens after the blog is in the bag, while moving forward to the 'new' stuff where we are.

As you know, (if you are able to scroll down a hundred pages to where this 'free' blog for which we are very grateful, keeps the pictures, after everyone else has met their advertising agendas) I just tack on the rest of the previous story at the end, if we have time. there have been no comnplaints, so it either works or nobody cares. Amen.

This time we have a few postscripts about Georgetown, SC which grabbed us as we were threatening to cast off and kept us for an extra day. The hook was a marvelous band, touted as South Carolina's premiere band, live in the middle of the week at a popular local restaurant/pub called The Big Tuna. It was the owner's birthday and the appearance was a very special event. For our music loving friends, you will be well served to google Ten Toes Up. they were so good they opuot me in mind of Halifax, which has

Eileen and Elijah

Full day... time to scoot.

to be the live music capital of the world. you may not know that this noble blogsite does not allow links of any kind, bless their hearts in the name of purity and we whole-heartedly agree with the paying sponsors. So if you have any interest to pursue anything we mention here, you will have to use your imagination and the reasonable computer skills you have developed to go a little further to get the whole picture.

Dinner's ready. The pictures will be for dessert and hopefully the captions will work for you.

Tomorrow

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