Dinner with friends

We left the anchorage at Figure Eight on Saturday and headed towards Cedar Point to see our friends, Marcia and Benton Herring who were our former neighbors in Denver, NC. They are in the process of building a new home in Cedar Point.  We contacted them earlier and arranged to have our mail forwarded to their address for us to pick up.

There is a portion of the ICW that goes through Camp Lejuene. As you may know they do live firing exercises here and use all kinds of new toys to light up the sky and acquire and destroy "targets".

We were glad they were not doing any training that day.

We just missed the opening of theSurf City Swing Bridge by 10 minutes!  Since it only opened on the hour we had to drop anchor and wait until it opened again at 11:00. 

The bridge was very busy that day.

Abby was bored with waiting an decided to take a nap.

Later that day, we didn't want to miss the opening at the Onslow Swing Bridge so Jim cranked up the engines and we made it through just in time. Debbie was down below when he did and she said it sounded like a jet taking off.

We arrived at Dudleys Marina, which is the marina closest to Marcia, at 3:00. We had a great visit with Marcia, Benton and Madison on our boat, catching up on the latest news. We also had a very enjoyable dinner with them in downtown Swansboro. 

One of the mail packages contained a new AGLCA burgee so we were able to replace our torn and tattered burgee with the new one.

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Sunday was for shopping and finishing and filing our taxes.  We accomplished both.

Our friends Bill and Sandy on Seas The Day are scheduled to arrive at Dudleys on their way from the Bahamas to Montreal. Jim bought some items for side dishes to go with our turkey dinner (it is Easter) and invited Bill and Sandy to share Easter dinner with us. 

Took Debbie a while to get the auto timer to work.

This was a sort of a dredge that was tied up behind us both nights we were here.  They come in around 5 PM and leave at 6 in the AM.  It picks up the sand from the two pipes on the side and shoots it out of a big water cannon off the bow.  Would have loved to see it working, but we didn't find where they were working.