Thursday morning, woke up around 6am. Joe calls to me to come top-side........I look up to a glorious sky filled with STARS! STARS! AND MORE STARS!  so beautiful! and then a sunrise that was awesome!
while getting dressed, we turned on the VHF........an announcement came over......
SECURI-TAY, SECURI-TAY SECURI-TAY............this is warship 72,(he then gave his Latitude, and Longitude........they were preforming live fire tests........we were not close by, but it was an interesting announcement)
after our coffee, we pulled out of Little Alligator river, the water was like a rainbow, we wait for the swing bridge to open at East Lake. then proceed down thru the Alligator River-Pungo Canal.  all in all, a pretty boring ride.

 

We have been following sailing vessel BANYAN.  Was nice to know someone was near by when we dropped the hook last night.This was my first anchorage and it was very cool!   We continued to sail with them down the Pungo river and  pull into the Slade Creek, where we again drop the hook. because a hurricane is expected with the next few days, we will get up early again and head towards Oriental, NC where we will have plenty of shelter from the storm. We called ahead for dockage at River Dunes Marina.  Lucky we had cell phone coverage for a short time  to make that call. other wise, no cell phone coverage all day!
We were sitting top side before dinner wondering what a Pungo is......we escaped the alligators in the alligator river, but are there Pungos? do they hide in the trees around Slade Creek? 
We had a dinner of baked chicken, a mixture of carrots, potatoes and parsnip with a sprinkle of peas, we were again treated to another awesome sunset that added to the ambiance for our top side dinning.
it got a little buggy and we then had to go below.