We left North Myrtle beach at 8:50 am to head north to another new state, North Carolina. We travelled about 45 miles in dark grey skies with plenty of black clouds, but somehow we only got about 4 drops of mist on the windows. The first picture not only shows the typical skies, but we got this close to the Atlantic Ocean at one of the inlets that we passed. We had a (personal) record 9 bridges today as we went under 8 bridges and through one luckily with no wait.
Our "different" photo for today is of a US Army Corps of Engineers dredge. It reminded me of the sand dredges in my hometown of Lorain, Ohio. You can see the vacuum like hose on the side. Those dredges in Lorain went out into Lake Erie and dredged up sand for construction, etc. Also, it is the weekend so we passed many power boats today.
Our destination today was Southport Marina in (you guessed it) Southport, North Carolina. We had dinner at a waterfront restaurant that had several pictures on the wall from scenes in the recent movie "Safe Haven". Many of the scenes were filmed in Southport and other locations as "far" away as Wilmington, NC. It just so happens that our destination tomorrow is Wilmington, which is about 25 miles up the Cape Fear River. The Cape Fear River, which empties into the Atlantic at Southport, will be our route to Wilmington tomorrow.
Safe Haven was released last February, and although it is probably a chick flick, I even liked it... This last picture is a view of one of the classic waterfront places. Anyway, we toured a bit of the town on the electric scooters, and it will easily make my list of places to visit again.
We left North Myrtle beach at 8:50 am to head north to another new state, North Carolina. We travelled about 45 miles in dark grey skies with plenty of black clouds, but somehow we only got about 4 drops of mist on the windows. The first picture not only shows the typical skies, but we got this close to the Atlantic Ocean at one of the inlets that we passed. We had a (personal) record 9 bridges today as we went under 8 bridges and through one luckily with no wait. 
Our "different" photo for today is of a US Army Corps of Engineers dredge. It reminded me of the sand dredges in my hometown of Lorain, Ohio. You can see the vacuum like hose on the side. Those dredges in Lorain went out into Lake Erie and dredged up sand for construction, etc. Also, it is the weekend so we passed many power boats today. 
Our destination today was Southport Marina in (you guessed it) Southport, North Carolina. We had dinner at a waterfront restaurant that had several pictures on the wall from scenes in the recent movie "Safe Haven". Many of the scenes were filmed in Southport and other locations as "far" away as Wilmington, NC. It just so happens that our destination tomorrow is Wilmington, which is about 25 miles up the Cape Fear River. The Cape Fear River, which empties into the Atlantic at Southport, will be our route to Wilmington tomorrow.
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