An early start from our secluded anchorage in Cedar Creek after a night of storms got us across a calm Neuse River and an easy motor to our new anchorage at Belhaven, NC. This is a rather small town with a grocery store about two miles out of town. We decided to make the trek to the grocery store but as we just started our walk Dennis flagged down a local and asked for a ride. It worked! A nice young man named Ivan gave us a lift to the grocery store and told us in his North Carolina drawl of his heritage: he was born in the States but both of his parents immigrated from Mexico twenty-four years ago (he was quick to tell us they are all legal).
It has been a rainy day since we anchored here in Pantego Creek (Belhaven), but that has been fine. We discovered another “fix” for the boat. It appears the Captain has been putting too much oil in the transmission and it has been overflowing into the bilge. We’ll be checking to see if the flow of oil has now stopped.
ATTENTION!
This is the 18th and all is not well. We stayed over in Belhaven because Shirla was not feeling well and they have two clinics and a small hospital right in town. First thing this morning Shirla walked into one of the clinics and the nurse practicioner thinks she has kidney stones. After the clinic we went to the local hospital and they said they would not do a CAT scan until tomorrow and only then if she is in severe pain. I am picking up three prescriptions this afternoon and we will play it by ear from here.
A major problem with this little town is we have no cell service. So no one can call us or vise versa. I am in the local library posting this as they have wireless. I will come back this evening to check email.
That is all for now.
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