Coinjack, NC

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November 6, 2018

This is a day late because we were without Internet and cell signal almost all day and night. When it came back this morning, we found my Surface keyboard is broken. I'm trying to type this with the touchscreen but Parkinson's makes that really hard. All to say from here on out for this trip it may be mostly Clay's photos instead of my comments. Sorry!

So, Coinjock had a load of yachts! The marina shop had an extensive selection of t-shirts. But, you wouldn't want to spend all day there! We didn't because we'd signed up for the excursion to Kitty Hawk and the Wright Brother's National Memorial. It was $65 each for a narrated ride there and back, one hour or so each way, plus a ranger-guided tour. We learned on arrival that there was no ranger on duty today. No alternate plan was offered since people were already scattered to restrooms etc. When we left the bus, we were told to be back onboard by 11:30. Harold stopped my plan to buy a 1903 Wright Flyer replica kite and fly it in the 45 minutes we had remaining. He said if everybody'd go get on the bus now then we could leave early and go see something else. Of course, everyone couldn't be found and rounded up. So while the majority of us sat on the bus and waited, a minority arrived back at the appointed time happy and wondered why everyone else was so grumpy. It was badly done.

We were back onboard by 12:30 for lunch. We sailed as planned right after 1pm. We went up top to see some canal cruising. Very quickly we were in the very broad North River and there was nothing to see. The wind also drove us off the top deck. Later that night we'd enter the Alligator River and sail the Alligator-Pungo Canal. We went up again after dinner to find they were using the front spotlights and the sky was flashing with heat lightning with no thunder. Shortly, rain arrived.

These Intracoastal Waterway canals are the reason we booked this very expensive cruise and never did it occur to us that these hard to access areas would be cruised during meals and in the dark. We have high hopes there are other areas like this to come that we'll be able to see and enjoy. Harold however keeps bringing up hurricane damage may force us out into the ocean. We'll see. We're going where and when the ship is going, so it will be whatever comes.

There was a lecture this afternoon. We won't do that again. We skipped the future cruise sales talk after it. We skipped the Not-so-newlywed game. Since we didn't spend much time up top, we returned to the cabin for a long afternoon nap. It was smooth sailing and we had a great nap.

After part of cocktail hour and dinner, we attended the evening overview for tomorrow's schedule and ducked out of entertainment. I don't think I've described cocktail hour. It is heavy hors d'oeuvre and a big bar of most kinds of liquor for mixed drinks plus beer and wine. At the evening entertainment, right after dinner, they served popcorn, root beer floats and sundaes. You could eat and drink solidly from 5:30 pm to 9 pm.

I'm using a public terminal in deck 3's mid-ship lounge for this and it is a bit better. But I'm not too happy about the public logging in and neither is Clay, but it will have to do until we get home and figure out what to do about my Surface.

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