As  you travel up the Pungo River, just past Belhaven, NC sits a quiet little marina, Dowry Creek.........it's run by a lovely woman, Mary and her friendly staff..........they help us tie up and said........happy hour in the boaters lounge at 5:30. we sit around and tell tails.........
After a wonderful dip in the pool and refreshing showers, we head up to the lounge.   everyone gathers and talks about their travels.  John and Missey just bought a 36 Hunter that they sailed down from VA. they bought  champagne for everyone to toast their new home in dowry creek! They are naming it "RRrrr happy home"  It's a fixer upper....so..........it'll be a challenge for sure!

History and bottle tree buffs believe the use of bottle trees may have come out of Africa or even ancient Arabia (think, genie in a bottle). People
would place the bottle trees outside the entrance of their homes to trap evil spirits. The most common thought is the spirits could not resist the
lure of the bottles as the sun shone through them.
The spirits would enter the bottles and become trapped. Blue bottles were believed to be the most powerful in trapping the spirits. And if you've ever heard the eerie howl of wind blowing over an open bottle, you might understand why someone would think such a tree trapped spirits.
Here's the bottle tree just oustside the pool at Dowry Creek Marina.

A peaceful, serene sunrise over Dowry Creek........we say good by and head up the Pungo river to the Alligator river-Pungo River Canal.

We had an extra passenger for awhile!!  Hang on Harvey!!!

We say goodbye to the canal........we a really nice ride through here.  Next stop Little Alligator River.  We are going to drop anchor tonight.  then head off to COINJOCK.  from there, it is 50 miles to Portsmouth and the end of the intercoastal.