7/17/16
Southport NC
Posted by Bill

Well, it has been a few weeks since the last post. We survived the hectic 4th of July festival and had a 4 day long party on the dock! Wore us out!!! It has been so hot here that it has been difficult to motivate ourselves for boat projects outside, but we have been chipping away at it. Also, we have been looking at and negotiating real estate here in downtown Southport. It has been taking all of our time. More on that in a future post.

One of the fun things we did was going to a 7 mile secluded beach on the ocean…yes, amazing that one still exists on the eastern US coast. You have to take a small boat (like our great new dinghy, which we love) through a series of back creeks to get to the back side of the beach, and it is not well known. I was sworn to secrecy before the track through the creeks was divulged to me, and I had to record it on a GPS so I could find my way by myself later. It is absolutely beautiful and secluded. A ranger patrols it a couple of times a day, but the only way to get to it is by water. We have been there a couple of times, taking our chairs, swimming and wallowing. We are planning a fishing trip there this afternoon.

Mark and Jan, on the other Island Bound, arrived back here from there trip back home in Kentucky. We have been having fun with them on a regular basis, and had a great reunion dinner on their boat the other night. All we needed was Byrd Ketcher…we miss you guys!!!

Yesterday, we went to the wedding of the daughter of our good friends Mark and Jane. We met them in Marathon last year. They live here in Southport and also run the Southport Inn. They just built a house in a subdivision right on the Cape Fear River, and are friends with the people that own the Revenge House at the end of the subdivision road that dead-ends into the river. The Revenge House was the house that was used in the filming of the pilot for the TV series Revenge. Their daughter had the wedding ceremony and pre-reception gathering at the house, so we got to check it out. It was a really cool wedding, and the house was beautiful.

If you watched the show, you will remember a double infinity symbol that was carved into the railing on the back porch of the house. The film crew repaired the railing, but the owners got to keep the piece that had the symbol carved in:

Keep cool and enjoy the summer!!