White squall

That's right, white squall. We were going to find an anchorage but decided since it was nice and sunny we shouldn't encounter too many of the scattered showers they were calling for. Well we only hit one shower, one very bad storm. We had just come out of the Alligator River canal and had entered the Alligator River itself (for you Mommy to follow on the maps) .

It started to sprinkle, we could see some gray clouds in the distance. We slowly got our rain coats on. It started to rain a little more. I went down below to get our rain pants. All of a sudden the boat is heeled over, the dinghy is upside down behind the boat and Josh's eyes are glued to the chartplotter. (Did i mention that we love our chartplotter?!) We just barely got our pants on, Josh's weren't even tied, and the skies opened up. At times we could barely see the boat (the front of the boat). Of course as luck would have it this all happened at the trickiest corner of it all, with shoals (shallow water) all around us. It's a good thing we didn't encounter any other boats going southbound. We wouldn't have been able to see them until we were too close.

But we came out okay, a little shaken albeit. The only casualty in the whole event was the dinghy seat. It got in the way anyways!

We are leaving Alligator river marina tomorrow, hopefully, depending on the weather. We'll be crossing the Abermarle sound. We've decided to take the dismal swamp route. It's supposed to be beautiful, a little tricky but worth it. We'll let you know.

lots of love
Josh and Rox