We cruised across parts of the Pamlico Sound and Neuse River today and are now in Belhaven, NC, which is a very small rural town on the river.

The ICW is framed with very tall pines and marsh grasses in the narrow parts, very pretty, actually. The open bays were calm today due to nice low winds recently.

There were dolphins surfing our wake again today. This one's doing a "look-see" to check us out I believe. They usually just jump, but occasionally they just surface for a second like this and then dive under again. I think it's just enough to get their eyes out of the water, but who knows? I love watching the dolphins surf and play. It seems like the dolphins in the bays surf more and even thoug we frequently see them near our boat in the ocean, they just don't usually try surfing.

Another sighting! This is the first solar powered boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean. They're going from Basel to New York and hit the continent somewhere south of Myrtle Beach (where we saw them the first time) and they're taking the ICW up to NYC. They go really slow, due to the solar power mechanics I assume, but they're obviously going to make it, and that's the important part. We passed them days ago and since then we spent an extra day seeing Beaufort, NC and an another day going out to Cape Lookout to anchor out, and now today we caught up with them again. At least it was a very bright, clear, sunny day today. I can't help but wonder if we'll see them again. We're taking another day for fun tomorrow.

Belhaven, NC may be just a teeny town, BUT it's the closest town where we can get a rental car to go visit the Hatteras boat factory tomorrow! I called Steve McPhereson at SAMs Marine, the Hatteras parts company and he gave me a contact name at the factory. Nancy Ray at Hatteras arranged a personal Hatteras boat factory tour for us tomorrow! How cool is that?