Oriental has turned out to be our best stop so far. We stayed from Sept 30 to Oct 2. The harbor shown in the picture is quite small and quaint with more shrimp boats than pleasure craft. Our dock backed onto a small motel with a great restaurant and very active Tiki Bar. We met quite a few like minded people at the bar each evening. The average age in Oriental today is 59! The population is less than 1,000, but there are over 2,700 sail boats based here.
We did our first major bicycle based shopping excursion here to the local market about 1 mile away. Getting every thing back to the boat was quite a sight.
We now have a rough plan for the remainder of October in NC. We will meet our friends the Sorensens who have been traveling in the Chesapeake all summer in Manteo on Roanoke Island out on the Outer Banks. From there we will go to Okracoke, also on the Outer Banks, then on to Bath, Washington, Oriental and New Bern. That should take us to about October 25 when we will begin heading south again.
We did our first major bicycle based shopping excursion here to the local market about 1 mile away. Getting every thing back to the boat was quite a sight.
We now have a rough plan for the remainder of October in NC. We will meet our friends the Sorensens who have been traveling in the Chesapeake all summer in Manteo on Roanoke Island out on the Outer Banks. From there we will go to Okracoke, also on the Outer Banks, then on to Bath, Washington, Oriental and New Bern. That should take us to about October 25 when we will begin heading south again.
