We went up the Albemarle Sound and ICW to Coinjock, NC.

It was a beautiful flybridge day with temps in the 80s and almost no waves, which is good because the Albemarle Sound is very large and can develop big waves if the wind kicks up.

The ICW south of the Albemarle Sound was a river with the darkest "tea stained" water I have ever seen. It's not muddy at all, just tea colored from running through plants and plant material in swamps.

Coinjock, NC itself isn't much, just a few houses and two little marinas on the ICW (and the name sounds to me the description of an athletically inclined numismatist).