A Weekend at Fort Fisher

Friday, November 6 - Sunday, November 8

I've had a guage to go bad on the motor home (the secondary air guage) and the best place to get it replaced is the Freightliner Service Center in Wilmington.

We're using it as an excuse to spend the weekend near there.

The work was completed Friday afternoon.  Afterward, we decided to check and see if we could stay at Fort Fisher Air Force Recreation Area, which is South of Carolina Beach near the Fort Fisher Aquarium.

The Recreation area is a part of Seymour Johnson AFB.  It's a place for base personnel to be able to spend some relatively inexpensive time with their families at the beach.  And they have a small RV park.  So here we are.

Saturday morning we decided to take the Fort Fisher - Southport Ferry across the Cape Fear River to Southport.

The park on the river was really busy today with the wonderful temperatures.

The last time I was in Southport was several years ago with Joe Barwick on Eureka.  We had decided that February would be a good time to take Eureka South for a while.  Turned out to be one of the coldest of winters.  After we decided in Georgetown SC that we probably going to freeze to death before we reached Miami, we decided to turn around and head back home.  On the way, it got colder.  We ended up leaving the boat in Southport, renting a car and going home, coming back when it got warmer to pick up the boat and take it home.

Quite different today, with temperatures in the 80's

We had a nice day just relaxing (and Clara shopping) with a really nice lunch at "The Pharmacy"