{"id":6175,"date":"2017-07-21T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T02:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2017-08-30T14:11:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T18:11:51","slug":"july-21-day-21-belhaven-to-alligator-river-marina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=6175","title":{"rendered":"July 21 – Day 21 – Belhaven to Alligator River Marina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We are now docked at the Alligator River Marina which adjacent to the highway that leads from the mainland to Kill Devil Hills & Kitty Hawk.<\/p>\n

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It would have been interesting to get over to Kitty Hawk but the boating logistics are just too complicated for this particular trip.<\/p>\n

We left Belhaven this morning at 6:45am & arrived at the marina at 2:30pm. It was another very hot day with little wind to cool us.<\/p>\n

For the first 4 hours of the trip we followed the Alligator River Canal, which is an engineered waterway that is 20 miles long & straight as an arrow. The photo below shows our view for virtually the entire time we were in the canal.<\/p>\n

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At the north end of the canal the Alligator River opens up to be several miles wide but the navigation channel is still only about 200 meters wide & it quickly gets very shallow on either side. We could not let our attention stray too long or we might run aground.<\/p>\n

It was pretty hot when we docked & there was still no wind. Thankfully the marina has a comfortable air conditioned boater’s lounge with a large screen TV so we mixed some cool drinks to celebrate our arrival & retreated to the lounge for a few hours.<\/p>\n

The marina also has a gas station on the highway & a restaurant so we decided to skip cooking dinner & had a great southern BBQ pulled pork dinner with fried okra & hush puppies! It sure beat eating leftovers from our galley!<\/p>\n

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We are now only 85 miles from Norfolk, VA & “Mile 0”, at the north end of the ICW. Tomorrow we will cross the Albemarle Sound – where our route will be about 14 miles across open water & then we enter the next series of rivers & canals that are sheltered by the barrier islands. Hopefully we will have some pleasant ocean breezes to help keep us cool.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

35\u00b054\u20322\u2033 N 76\u00b01\u203228\u2033 W We are now docked at the Alligator River Marina which adjacent to the highway that leads from the mainland to Kill Devil Hills & Kitty Hawk. It would have been interesting to get over to Kitty Hawk but the boating logistics are just too complicated for this particular trip. We left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-cruise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-1BB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6531,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions\/6531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}