On Saturday, June 04 we left Beaufort and motored to Oriental, NC. On Saturday morning the wind turned and came from the North. It was blowing 20+ kts. It made an interesting exercise getting out of the slip. We made the trip from Beaufort to Oriental on the ICW in about 4 hrs.
The reason(s) we wanted to visit Oriental is that we have multiple friends that live in the village. Howard and his wife Ros Cheetham sailed with us in the WorldARC. Another friend, Stu Robinson with Arrow his cat was a slip mate for many years while we were in Green Turtle Bay.
We anchored in the Oriental harbor, launched the dinghy and all four of us headed into town. We had a lovely reunion.
Oriental is a village of about 500 folks it sits on the banks of the Neuse River. Not a river in the inland sense where Oriental is located. It’s part of an inland sea making up the Albermarle-Pimlico Estuary. It’s about 3000 square miles of open water.
