Saturday, September 04, 2004
Cape Carteret to Coast Guard Station, 9-1-04
1159 picture is in front of lovely woods where Emerald Isle new city park will soon have an access point to Bogue Sound for us.
1161 is at Coast Guard dock
1162 is view from their porch in the heavy rain
1163 is Steve relaxing in comfort for lunch
1164 is pumping my canoe out of about 1/2 full canoe of rain water
1165 is Seaman Tracy Waldeck and Petty Officer Daniel Taylor
Daniel: Thanks a million to all for taking us in. You "saved" the day for us! Elmer
A Delightful Paddle–Cape Carteret to The Coast Guard Station
September 1, 2004, Doug Shumate, and his son,Steve Shumate and Elmer Eddy put in at the foot of Manatee Street in Cape Carteret and paddled over to the Coast Guard Station at Bogue Inlet.
Doug is from < /">www.troublesomecreek.com> in Stokesdale up in the Mountains. Steve is from Nashville, Tennessee.
The Inland Waterway was as calm as I have ever seen it. We made our way along the bridge on to the west side. When we came to the ICW we crossed under the bridge and went around the island. The map shows an opening along the bridge here but it has been closed.
We headed toward the Emerald Isle shore line and crossed under the bridge again. The tide was almost at full and still flowing in. High tide is recommended for canoeing this route.
When we got to the Emerald Isle shore we saw a very narrow opening in the marsh grass close to the shore line. Tide water was rushing at us over oysters and making a little rapid. I stood up and saw plenty of open water beyond it.
We got out of our boats and pulled them over this little rapid and continued on. We soon came to the new parkland for Emerald Isle where we will have access to launch our boats. This will be great.
Doug took a picture of a very high billboard over grown by the tree tops. It was an interesting sight close to the road before 58 bears left.
We came to beautiful homes and long docks. A brief shower came up and we took shelter under a dock with raised boats. To get out of the rain one goes under the bottom of a boat! Also this dock had a closed deck without spaces between the decking.
At this time we thought we saw a funnel cloud that looked like a tornado over toward Bogue Inlet. We now learn that it was a water spout!
We continued on to the Coast Guard Station and arrived there at lunch time together with a hard rain from a passing front from the northeast which blew us there. Petty Officer Billy Taylor invited us to the porch out of the rain. We enjoyed our lunch chatting with the coast guardsmen. This tops all paddling lunch stops! Thanks to the deluge!
They offered us a truck ride with our boats back to our put-in. When lunch was over so was the heavy rain and the front had passed by and it was almost calm again. We thanked them very much but declined the truck ride and decided to paddle back via Banks Channel.
We had a good fast paddle home against the tide which we could avoid by staying close to shore lines and also against a light breeze. On one shell beach before we got to the bridge on the north shore we hit a small concentration of litter. We only had a half bag of trash as we picked up every bit we saw along the entire trip.
As we neared the foot of Manatee Street the water again was very calm . We got back shortly after three. We highly recommend this trip to all.
The young lady in the picture #1165 is Seaman Tracy Waldeck and the gentleman is Petty Officer, Daniel McDonald.
#1159 is in front of the new Emerald Isle city park site. #1160 keeping dry in a brief hard shower, #1161 at the Coast Guard Station dock, #1162 view from the porch in the heavy rain. #1163 in comfort at lunch. #1164 pumping rain water out of my canoe. It was almost half full.
(I went under or over the Emerald Isle bridge six times. Four by canoe and two by car to our canoe club meeting that night. This must be a record!)
--------------------------------------------------------------Elmer, The White Oak River TrashmanStewards of the White Oak River BasinPlease visit: http://www.whiteoakstewards.org/ cell phone 910-389-4588----------------------------------------------------------------
1161 is at Coast Guard dock
1162 is view from their porch in the heavy rain
1163 is Steve relaxing in comfort for lunch
1164 is pumping my canoe out of about 1/2 full canoe of rain water
1165 is Seaman Tracy Waldeck and Petty Officer Daniel Taylor
Daniel: Thanks a million to all for taking us in. You "saved" the day for us! Elmer
A Delightful Paddle–Cape Carteret to The Coast Guard Station
September 1, 2004, Doug Shumate, and his son,Steve Shumate and Elmer Eddy put in at the foot of Manatee Street in Cape Carteret and paddled over to the Coast Guard Station at Bogue Inlet.
Doug is from < /">www.troublesomecreek.com> in Stokesdale up in the Mountains. Steve is from Nashville, Tennessee.
The Inland Waterway was as calm as I have ever seen it. We made our way along the bridge on to the west side. When we came to the ICW we crossed under the bridge and went around the island. The map shows an opening along the bridge here but it has been closed.
We headed toward the Emerald Isle shore line and crossed under the bridge again. The tide was almost at full and still flowing in. High tide is recommended for canoeing this route.
When we got to the Emerald Isle shore we saw a very narrow opening in the marsh grass close to the shore line. Tide water was rushing at us over oysters and making a little rapid. I stood up and saw plenty of open water beyond it.
We got out of our boats and pulled them over this little rapid and continued on. We soon came to the new parkland for Emerald Isle where we will have access to launch our boats. This will be great.
Doug took a picture of a very high billboard over grown by the tree tops. It was an interesting sight close to the road before 58 bears left.
We came to beautiful homes and long docks. A brief shower came up and we took shelter under a dock with raised boats. To get out of the rain one goes under the bottom of a boat! Also this dock had a closed deck without spaces between the decking.
At this time we thought we saw a funnel cloud that looked like a tornado over toward Bogue Inlet. We now learn that it was a water spout!
We continued on to the Coast Guard Station and arrived there at lunch time together with a hard rain from a passing front from the northeast which blew us there. Petty Officer Billy Taylor invited us to the porch out of the rain. We enjoyed our lunch chatting with the coast guardsmen. This tops all paddling lunch stops! Thanks to the deluge!
They offered us a truck ride with our boats back to our put-in. When lunch was over so was the heavy rain and the front had passed by and it was almost calm again. We thanked them very much but declined the truck ride and decided to paddle back via Banks Channel.
We had a good fast paddle home against the tide which we could avoid by staying close to shore lines and also against a light breeze. On one shell beach before we got to the bridge on the north shore we hit a small concentration of litter. We only had a half bag of trash as we picked up every bit we saw along the entire trip.
As we neared the foot of Manatee Street the water again was very calm . We got back shortly after three. We highly recommend this trip to all.
The young lady in the picture #1165 is Seaman Tracy Waldeck and the gentleman is Petty Officer, Daniel McDonald.
#1159 is in front of the new Emerald Isle city park site. #1160 keeping dry in a brief hard shower, #1161 at the Coast Guard Station dock, #1162 view from the porch in the heavy rain. #1163 in comfort at lunch. #1164 pumping rain water out of my canoe. It was almost half full.
(I went under or over the Emerald Isle bridge six times. Four by canoe and two by car to our canoe club meeting that night. This must be a record!)
--------------------------------------------------------------Elmer, The White Oak River TrashmanStewards of the White Oak River BasinPlease visit: http://www.whiteoakstewards.org/ cell phone 910-389-4588----------------------------------------------------------------
Thursday, September 02, 2004
September 1, 2004-Cape Carteret to The Coast Guard Station
Picture 1160, Steve and Doug under dock during a brief heavy shower
Cape Carteret to Coast Guard Station, 9-1-04
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