Memorial Day Weekend

Friday, the starting of the Memorial Day Weekend. The weekend all the yahoos get out on the water...  We fit right in!!  We left Carolina Beach State Park across from Wilmington this morning before 7am.  It was the smallest marina where we have stayed - much too small for a 40' boat trailing a 10' dingy.  We made it out without any problem and were in Snow Cut within minutes.  That was the hardest part of the day.  Getting out of the slip had me worried but it all worked out fine.  We had scheduled a stop and refueling at a little marina that we could not find any information on, but we needed fuel and a place to stay so we reserved a slip hoping that all would not be booked on this busy weekend.  Along the way we saw a fellow boater that we met in St Augustine and we called him on the VHF and ask him about the place.  He advised us to buy fuel and continue a couple of miles to a nice anchorage behind Camp Lajune.  Lucky we talked to him.  The marina turned out to be a RED Neck RV park.  A group pulled up next to us in a over crowded John boat and ask if they could go with us. We thanked them for the offer but had to leave.  A scene from Deliverence came to mind.  Anyway we are in the cove behind the USMC training grounds.  A place where many of our nations hero's have trained.  We can hear the rumble of tanks on shore only a 100 yard or so from where we sit.  Thanks to all our military this weekend without them this trip would not be possible.  The pic is on the loading dock at our back door. Fred Tidwell you may have been here.