Wrightsville Beach to Carolina Beach

 

Departing Mile Hammock, morning surface fog

s/v Kunik 

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Wrightsville Beach

We started seeing our first derelict boats. How sad it was to see them left high and dry, sunk or ready to sink. There is a great effort to remove them, but it is slow, dangerous and expensive.

A bunch of us boaters anchored in a row along the island that separates Wrightsville Beach from the ICW. When the boating activity calmed down, there was still a “hum” of the ocean waves hitting the beach. I was surprised it was so loud from over the inhabited Wrightsville Beach neighborhoods. The inlet was just around the corner.

Wrightsville Beach to the east

View to the west

We left W Beach around 11 am because we wanted to time high tide over the most shallow ICW areas. It made for a short day since we need to anchor by sunset, now at 5:30 ish! So we anchored in Carolina Beach anchorage, the next closest place we could get to the ocean.

Carolina Beach anchorage has a mooring ball area as well. The town mooring ball instructions are posted clearly and the no wake zones are enforced. We saw the town harbormaster check out what seemed to be an anchored derelict boat. It appeared they did not find anyone aboard the sailboat that was towing a dinghy but it was mostly deflated now.

It was close quarters and we went in different directions for a while till the breeze lined us up.

Below: Carolina Beach Anchorage, protected on all sides.

Below, the big clear sign

We are not going into many towns yet. Sorry so much water. We are watching the weather windows for going on the ocean jaunt.