just before turning into Taylor creek where we anchored the wild horses of Carrot island were greeting usTaylor Creek and Front Street Beaufortour anchorage in Beaufortnext to the round roof was the free public dinghy dock, so very convenient ; Altimate is “on top ” of the three people in the back of the pic; so the commute to town was about a minutesomewhere along Front street it was so nice being strolling along the pretty waterfronteverywhere flowershuge housesmany private docks the northwest end of Front streetjust a pretty small garden in between houseshere we had our first beer and some tacos from the truck
Second day exploring more of the town
morning impressions of the creekit was so calm and peacefulwe walked to the farmers market and passed this mazethe famers market turned out to be more of a homemade art market, but we found at least one booth with veggies and fruitswe kept walking to a grocery store and passed pretty greens – I was so excited about all the green and flowershere we walked through a residential areasome guys presented proud their old-timer
A few pics of the Bonehenge Whale Centre
Unfortunately I can’t recall all the names of the bones…
that was super interesting , the whales can hear through their jawbonehere El Capitano could here the sound being amplified through the shape of the bone- (not sure if I described that correctly)can’t remember 🙈These are the bones of “Pitfall”, a 37′ humpback whale that was struck by a ship and died when she was three years old.Her carcass came ashore in Duxbury Beach,Ma October 2001.
More of Beaufort
a very old house at the east of Front streetat the very east end of Beaufortfried soft shell crabs and fried oysters, we were at a diner with Dianne the OCC (Ocean Cruising Club) port captain, I have no idea why I didn’t take more fotosthey were still building wooden sailboats, pretty amazingsome old fashioned out board enginesfloweressometimes the horses came to visit us, they were very close, grazing at the swamp areas at low tide, so cooooolanother day out with live musicain´t it all so tidy?the graveyard a fully overgrown housecan it get any greener?
A visit to Carrot island
at low tide we went to Carrot Island (where the horses live)the wood looked bit like in Germanythe dune made us feel like being in the NetherlandsI like horsesoysters
The time with Linda, Kellianne and Ty
Linda is the bestthat was just another nice sunset going down Taylor creeklinda and El Capitano at Fort Macon State Parkthe three of usflowers at our dinghy dock, isn’t that nice?we were waiting here for Linda to pick us up to play pickle ballsorry about all the cute little flower picsNorbert had picked up Ty Linda and Kellianne and we had such a good time catching upthat was at the wooden boat showaperitif at Lisa and Matthew´s placeMatthew, Linda, Lisa, Norbert, Kellianne and Tyand birthday girl Kellianne
Some pics Ty shared
ohhh that was Kellianne’s birthday tableLinda explaining something with a lot of expression I just liked that fotothe lady crewok we all do not look very good- but who cares we had fun
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