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Friday, May 29, 2015

Wednesday 5/27 - Topsail Island/Hampstead, NC to Beaufort, NC

First thought of the day...'Today is Lisa's birthday!!!'
Today was a long cruise day….arrived in Beaufort (Boo-fert) around 4:30ish.  Really nice dock hands and marina sits right on Front St. (their Main St).  They have their act together...they give you a wooden token for a free drink and then marina folk get 10% off dinner at the dock house restaurant.
This first picture was taken from the boat looking in toward the marina and town and the other is the opposite view - lots of sailboats at mooring balls.




It’s another charming little city.  After we got settled (again, this takes a good hour after arrival!!)  we headed out in the marina's courtesy car - ABC for Harry's vodkie and CVS for Harry’s drugs…. these cars are always a hoot…usually a car that they don’t care if you dent, ding or wreck… this one was a 70s Buick station wagon with the wood panel on the sides - a Woody’ and it drove like a tank…it sat really low and i had to chuckle at Harry driving this thing.  I guess everyone in town knows we're marina folks!  And they had two 'Woodys' - one was navy and one was white.  weird huh?

Since we arrived early, I did more research than normal and chose a dinner spot called Aqua.   It was a few streets off the main street and we kinda missed it at first but this allowed us to visit a lovely, unique cemetery.  A mysterious grave was one that looked at its core, as if it had been there for many, many years, yet the remembrances (trinkets) were child like and new - not one appeared moldy or wet or old.  curious huh?  as many of you know i love cemeteries, especially one like this but Harry was more than willing to keep walking - i think the place gave him the 'willies'.








Aqua turned out to be a good choice; very fun, different and it had great food.  We shared crab cakes and scallop small plates.  yum.



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