Elizabeth City!

We pulled away from the dock at the visitors center at 7:15 this morning. Our plan was to go to Alligator River but that was scraped because we seemed to be having trouble with our batteries. After Larry disconnected the solar panels and wind generator and doing some more trouble shooting and calling Scott to confer it was decided that our batteries are having difficulty keeping up with our refrigerator and Engle freezer. That is good because we can control usage by not running other things like fans. Even though it is very hot it seems to cool down when the storms roll in. 

We arrived in Elizabeth City about 12:15. A very short day for us. We walked into town and found a nice restaurant to have lunch at. Shortly after we returned to the boat the sky became very threatening. We only got a short burst of rain thankfully and it did clear the air of some of the heat and humidity. This is a screenshot of the weather map. It looks like we may get more rain. 

Some pictures of us going through the second and last lock of the Dismal Swamp. 

The alge bloom, duck weed, in the Pasquotank River today. The boat in from of us had passed through this area shortly before us but there wasn't evidence of him ever having been through there left behind.