Mahi Mahi Day 1 – Little River to Wrightsville Beach North Carolina

Well, as I advertised on the teaser post a few days ago, this will be a somewhat boring post.

We went about 75 miles today from Little River to Wrightsville Beach North Carolina.

During our cruise today, it was a very easy ride, some nice houses to look at but slightly boring. We did have a surprising cargo freighter passing us about halfway on the Atlantic ICW. Somewhat strange for the ICW, but they were coming out of the big city Wilmington NC on the Cape Fear River, heading out to the Atlantic Ocean.

Tonight we are anchored with 3 other boats at Wrightsville Beach North Carolina. And we were treated to a sailing school coming by us with about 8 to 10 young aspiring sailors. We’re looking across the bay at the sailboats & a beautiful 80 foot Viking sport fish boat. It’s a very nice setting, very easygoing, and just an incredibly peaceful feeling. I’m getting that euphoric feeling like I had back on the Great Loop (2017/2018) and just reminding myself how much I really enjoy this lifestyle.

Our incredible chef Deena, served up a 3 course meal – salad, muffins, and a meatball soup. I know, meatball soup maybe doesn’t sound the greatest, but everything was delicious. She is amazing on what meals she can create out of a small boat galley (kitchen).

So we’re still formulating the plan for tomorrow. Each night we do research, compare notes, then decide on the next stop for tomorrow. So far it looks like Beaufort NC (pronounced Bo-Fert) about 90 miles away.

This may be a challenging day because we have reports via AGLCA that a 12ft swing bridge about 45 miles into the trip, is under repair, and you can only get thru between 12pm-1pm. Most of the bridges we go under on the ICW are 65ft tall. The Mahi Mahi is about 17ft tall.

Hopefully we will give a more exciting post next time.

Have a great night

Farewell, from Jerry, Deena, and Mike