Beaufort NC

I remember Beaufort from probably 30 years ago, and I was looking forward to seeing it again. It is even prettier than I remembered. The houses are all white clapboard with two-story porches.

The retail shops are cute, as well.

There’s a waterfront boardwalk that runs for about a mile, decorated with pots of flowers. And extending out from the boardwalk are piers holding some of the prettiest boats you’ll ever see.

Guinness and I are in a waterfront restaurant having a fried oyster Po Boy, and looking at this yacht.

And here’s a surprise: a memorial to the pilot of Challenger.

The trip from Oriental was painless. We deliberately took it very slow, and we followed a commercial trawler the entire way.

I figured I couldn’t get in trouble if I followed him!

We saw our first dolphins today. VERY EXCITING!. They were chasing a school of mackerel toward us, and the fish were jumping out of the water constantly and repeatedly.

It’s time to start planning tomorrow’s run to Wrightsville Beach. Tomorrow will be a long day, whether we go outside or in The Ditch. The weather today is GORGEOUS. 82 degrees but feels hotter in the sun.