Trips of Discovery

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Tagged: ICW

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The Ale Trail of Wilmington, NC – Take the challenge

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes – SBFL – Planing to visit – If you’re on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), delay your departure from Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, for a few days. Plan an excursion to Wilmington, which is the number one spot on the North Carolina coast to enjoy local craft beer! Take the Wilmington Ale Trail and enjoy the city. This is one of those challenges that squarely falls into the “challenging self” category. The question is can you do it? How about within two days, if not in one day?  All by yourself or with a group of friends and family? The Ale Trail is all about local craft beers and microbrewers...

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Beaufort, NC – Make sure to pronounce it as BOW-fert

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes – SBFL 26*  – PLANNING TO VISIT – Allan C. Fisher, Jr, back in 1973, wrote, “We thought Morehead City unattractive, but Beaufort, a community just across the Newport River, is a colonial jewel founded in 1709, nearly a century and a half before Morehead City. Beaufort’s shady streets offer the stroller 25 houses built before the Revolution and more than a hundred that predate the Civil War. Ship carpenters built some of the houses in the waterfront area, and the close-fitting excellence of their handiwork remains evident.” Fisher, senior assistant editor of National Geographic, and his America’s Inland Waterway book published by National Geographic is one of our two...

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Morehead City, NC – Fabulous Fishermen, and $5,858,875

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes – SBFL 25*  – PLANNING TO VISIT –   If you’re rushing down to Florida on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), here’s another opportunity to slow down, with a visit to Morehead City, North Carolina. You are now in the region of North Carolina called the Crystal Coast.  After the Outer Banks (OBX), it is the next bi-coastal barrier island region of the state. As a matter of fact, a ferry connects Rout 12 of of OBX on Ocracoke to Cedar Island One side of it faces the mighty Atlantic Ocean. The other faces the Bogue Sound and the river basin of this set of barrier islands. The Bogue Sound...

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Oriental, North Carolina – 880 people and 2,000 boats

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes – SBFL 24* – PLANNING TO VISIT – They say that they are pleasantly aware of the four seasons, but their fall is long and warm, and their winter is only occasionally dusted with snow and mild enough to allow year-round jogging, tennis, golfing, and boating on miles and miles of meandering waterways. Apparently, their traffic flows freely,  nobody waits in line for anything, and so their people are relaxed and happy. I would say they are describing a  tiny corner of heaven. Think about it, how can it not be with all those qualities plus… are you ready? It’s called the “Sailing Capitol of the Carolinas.”  Oriental, North Carolina,...