We pulled away from Elizabeth City at 7:15am. We are waiting with 3 other boaters for the 7:30am opening of the bridge here. We are now in the Dismal Swamp Canal. At 10:30am we came to the first lock. We dropped are anchor and Illusion came up and rafted with us. At 11am we entered the lock.
As you can see the water rises 8 ft.
Always have to sign the wall when you go through the lock.
Leaving the lock
Now as we are coming out of the lock the lock master has already driven down the road to the bridge to open that for us.
Now we are headed for the North Carolina Welcome Center on the Dismal Swamp. We are going to raft up with other and stay the night.
Illusion rafted to us, in front of us is Mystic Rose.
Noah Genda power boat an the catamaran left us soon as we got there.
We arrived here approx. 12noon. We walked Sailor and took a walk around. Wayne filled the water tank. At 5:30 all 4 boats got together for dinner. We took our food to a picnic table and had a pot luck dinner.
It worked out great.
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Left: Wayne, Janet and Darrell on Mystic Rose, Tom and Diann on Noah Genda, Me and Sailor, Bob Krecic on Illusion from Ohio......Dale he knows you, so give us a call.
We are standing in front of the Dismal Swamp, look at that reflection of trees in the water. Cool. Oh, and I like ths picture of us too.
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