Sept 19 & 20  Belhaven, NC to Oriental, NC (River Dunes Marina)

We are still in pretty big bodies of water….traveling this morning in the Pungot River and then in the Pamlico Sound…on our way toward Oriental.  At one point we did come into a small channel with wild woods in both sides, waters smooth as glass…very nice ride.  

At one point i looked over and saw a bundle of darkness up in a small tree right near the coast line…i thought it could be two huge birds or bird nests…so i grabbed the ‘glasses’ and spied TWO BABY BLACK BEAR CUBS!!  they were so adorable, just playing up in a tree.  as we passed they looked out with those adorable tan facial features….and in my usual fashion, i shrieked……’Baby bear cubs!’  i kept my eyes on them until they were out of sight and I never did see Momma Bear.  

pretty cool, i grinned for miles….

Love this marina - nicest marina on our trip besides LBK that is…spent the day doing laundry, reading poolside in the cabana…and writing on one of their many screened porches. 

A couple of my latest reads were Jamie’s suggestion - Special Topics in Calamity Physics and then i thought i should familiarize myself with some Agatha Christie and read, And Then There Were None.  Today i started Erica Jong’s latest - The Fear of Dying.  All wonderful and all on my Kindle.  I was having a problem with my kindle and for a few days it would not swipe open - it was locked….but the wonderful internet told me how to fix it but for the few days it was down i actually read one of my hardbacks - Joyce Carol Oates’, We Were the Mulvalneys.  All these books are SO wonderful and highly recommended. 

The first night we dined in the marina's restaurant - very nice and on our last evening we dined in town and rode to dinner with 4 others from the Marina…always fun…Harry and I in the back of the van, he telling his captive audience about how we met and our honeymoon at sea.  We all ate at the M&M restaurant, i guess this is our 4th time there…we did not all sit together….thank goodness, i felt they’d had enough of us in the 10 minutes it took to drive to town.  anyway, dinner was good - fresh caught peel and eat shrimp and crab cakes…then Harry had to run across the street to see if the ice cream shop was open - unfortunately it was.