Late October: We anchored with perhaps a dozen other boats in Mile Hammock Bay (within the limits of the Camp Lejeune Marine base in NC). Ron and Karen on Seadancer invited many of the boaters over to their boat for a happy hour. (We met Seadancer and some of the others repeatedly during the next few months.) Leaving the next morning, we were second in line coming out of Mile Hammock Bay in the cold, rainy, and dark morning.

The lead boat took a wrong turn, and lemming-like, we followed. We were only aground 5 minutes or so.

Along with several dozen other boats, we stopped at Barefoot Landing, a free dock at a large shopping and entertainment area at Myrtle Beach, SC. The afternoon of the 27th, the boaters had an impromptu pot-luck happy hour on the docks, and got acquainted.

For Halloween, we stopped at Beaufort, SC. (The first syllable rhymes with “you”.) No trick-or-treaters came to the boat, but maybe that was because we were 200 yards from shore…