Moving On Up North

From Oriental, we entered some beautiful scenery and navigated some large rivers.  You wish you could stop every place that catches your fancy but there simply isn't enough time.  We enjoyed seeing  things that are so different from where we live now or have lived over the years and coastal North Carolina had a lot to keep our interest.  We are really glad we made the trip.

This is one section of dug canal leading from river to river as the
ICW wends it's way through the area.  The houses vary from small
to large.  This house had managed to concrete in the shoreline.  I
guess that's one way to manage bank erosion.  We saw acres of
rice fields with diversion canals to keep them water-filled.

Sometimes, you see the evidence of an accident.  Something big
hit this to knock it sideways.

We saw dozens of duck blinds all along the water.  At one place we
saw a long row of them across a shallow bank.

In one anchorage where we stopped, the shore was
 lined with hunting/fishing cabins.

This house was on a point jutting out into the river.  I would hate to
be there in a flood!

Getting closer to the end of the ICW! We have covered most of the
3,000 miles on this trip.