EDENTON IS EXCELLENT

Edenton does not get much press. Likely because it is so far up Albemarle Sound off the ICW. But it is a wonderful town.

First, you have free docks and water, and $3.00 electricity. Then you have Edenton High School Boosters offering fried chicken plates for lunch before or dinner during the baseball games. Then you get offered the husband’s truck (he was off sailing while mom stayed home and cared for the kids.) Then you get asked if you want a ride back to the boat when you are walking with groceries. And finally, you get asked to join in the yacht club’s sail to Mackey’s for a Crab Fest!

For the Crab Fest Barbara and Gil hosted us and two neighbors on their thirty one foot yawl, Barbara Jean III, that Gil built in his yard which fronts on Pembroke Creek. We crossed the sound to a point just west of the power lines to entrance marks leading into a cypress swamp. Once inside the forest, we saw fishermen flipping spinners up against the knees for bass. A water moccasin swam by within a boat length. A mile or so deep in the swamp we docked right behind the band, and we had a grand time.

The final event was Saturday night karaoke at Cheros (Sounds like Cheerios without the ios at the end. Just Cheeros).

It is worth an extra day to visit Edenton when sailing by.