After a quick trip in to The Bean for book exchange and coffee, we raised the anchor and set the sails bound for Cape Lookout. As you can see from the ending destination, we did in fact make it. It was a pretty uneventful day, but we did get to sail some, so it wasn't too bad.

Once we got the anchor down, we had the running and subsequent dousing of the ferrets. It really is hot here and we are trying to regulate our ferrets body temperature. The general consensus is that Mila doesn't like the dousings, while Milo is ambivalent.

The bight at Cape Lookout is a national land and sea park and it is very pretty. As you can well imagine, the Cape Lookout lighthouse is stationed here as well. There are lots of nice, empty beaches and the park is home to very large (3 foot or so), mega cool sea turtles.

We lounged about and hid from the heat until around 3:30 or so, and then we loaded into the dinghy and went in to the beach here for a couple of games of Koob. (like boob, but less pointy) Koob is some old Norseman game that my brother in law saw at a party he was at and we have recreated here with our own custom Koob playing pieces that we made for $4.50 at Home Depot.

While we were playing Steve and Sally from Dimsan showed up. They anchored and then rowed (yes rowed) into shore. Steve is mechanically challenged and as such is not allowed to operate an outboard. We started to play another round of Koob with them explaining the rules along the way, but mother nature intervened in the form of biting green-headed flies and we had to postpone the event.

We gave the Dimsan's a tow back to their boat and enjoyed a beer or two with them in their cockpit before returning to our boat for a tequila lime, grilled shrimp appetizer followed by homemade pizza. We're getting back into our cruising groove, so we were in bed by 8:30.