Cape Lookout

Saturday October 26, 2013
34 37.189 N
76 32.976 W

This is my all time favorite anchorage. I just wish it was summer and that we could stay for a few days. Instead, we will be up before dawn hauling up the anchor and underway off shore to Wrightsville Beach.

Lighthouse at cape Lookout

We were a bit lazy getting out of New Bern this morning but made up some time with favorable tides and reached Cape Lookout by 4:30 PM. It was a cold night and a clear crisp morning, made for a sunny and calm run east on the Neuse River and then south on Adams Creek and past Beaufort and Morehead City, and out into the Atlantic.

Looking over the dunes to the Atlantic

Cape Lookout is beautifully protected from the Atlantic, but quite isolated and naturally wild. Occasionally you see green turtles and porpoises and we are told that there are wild houses on the dunes. We were only there as an overnight, but I hope we get the chance to revisit in the summer. It was a clear but cool and blowy evening, with lots of starts. As we climbed into bed it felt quite strange to be so warm and comfortable in what was basically a pretty hostile environment.

Cape Lookout Lighthouse at sunset