May 28, 2021
I Eat Fear For Breakfast
I awoke with a little trepidation. I was going up to Cape Fear to go into Cape Fear River entrance. Hmm, maybe the ICW is not such a bad place. I Left the anchorage early because the seas would be building later in the day and would be right on the starboard beam. Riding in the ditch, between waves not ICW, is not a comfortable way to travel. Even a novice like me knows that. I did have some waves big enough to throw some things around but those were when I was still near the Little River inlet. Big waves, wind picking up, and Cape Fear approaching. I don’t know why I would be nervous. Guess what, the Cape Fear River entrance was a pussycat. One of the easier inlets I have been through. This time.
I traveled up the ICW and anchored in Wrightsville Beach ready to go out the Masonboro Inlet tomorrow. Change of plans. Tomorrow is to have 6 ft. seas and 20kn winds. That is a little “nautical” for me. I am going to hit the ICW instead. Slow and safer. It is still the ICW on Memorial Day weekend.
