Elizabeth City, NC bills itself as the Hospitality Harbor and is noted, among ICW cruisers, as A Good Place To Stop. Unfortunately, by the time we get close to Elizabeth City, we figured out that the public docks would be full. Further, the wind would be out of the east, the direction the docks are least suited for.
We chose to anchor just before the drawbridge that crosses the ICW at Elizabeth City. The more we look at the charts and think about how late it is in the season (this time last year, we were well into South Carolina), the more we consider pushing on hard to reach the bottom of the Alligator River-Pungo River Cut. It'll be another long day, much like the run from Jackson Creek to Deep Creek, but we did it last year and we can do it again.
So while it was hardly bright, it was early when we pull up the anchor and pass under the drawbridge.
It's early November and it's cold out, although not quite the bitter cold of last year's trip south. Nonetheless, we're glad to have warm wool socks, knitted by Chris' mother. Nobody else on the ICW is as lucky to have good socks!
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