Five days and counting

Morehead City, NC, a mixed message...

For a resort town, it's not very exotic looking.  The view down the road from our marina.....

Route 70/Arendell St. (find the palm tree)

But.  It's got lots of stores and really good restaurants.  Took the courtesy car to West Marine and Best Buy, which amused us for a couple of hours.  Then, to make us feel really at home, we ordered a vacuum cleaner and a printer from Amazon Prime to be delivered tomorrow.  Our vacuum cleaner died from dog hair and our printer died from falling on the floor during a fishing boat wake. 

Question of the day: Why would any waterfront town allow itself to be called Morehead City?  Is it named after some indigenous peoples named the Moreheads? 

No, it was pretty much invented by Gov. John Motley Morehead, North Carolina governor, 1841 - 1845.  He saw economic potential in this central ICW location, so he and some friends bought a lot of property and developed it.  Thus, it does not have much of a fishing village feel like Oriental or Beaufort.

And, it's got Floyd's 1921...

Floyd's has incredible food and is a short walk over a field next to our marina.  Being a curious person, I looked up how it got its name.  Turns out, Floyd's 1921 was invented in 2005.  I give up.

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Speaking of fishing boats...

This guy next to us went out yesterday and came back with this...

Wahoo up the gazoo.  Some of which ended up with us...

Two pounds of ready-to-eat Wahoo (I know, we don't deserve it).

In the interest of more useless information, the name Wahoo is derived from the name Oahu due to the abundance of these fish near to the Hawaiian island.

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Back to more boatie looking stuff...

Our dock

And nasty boatie-looking stuff...

Over our heads as of 10:30 am.  Good old tropical something-or-other Philippe.  We're the little, whimpy-looking, defenseless blue dot.

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Well, that's all folks.