It was a relaxing 43 miles from Beaufort to New Bern. Our final port on this leg. We turned off the ICW and headed upriver 22 miles on the Neuse River. The Neuse is quite wide and it could be wicked traveling if the wind was up. Fortunately for us, it was not.
It’s been a while since we’ve crossed a body of water large enough to use the auto- pilot. Today we could and it makes for a much more relaxing trip.
It was easy to see why New Bern was a popular port back in the early days. It has good deep-water access from the ocean and the land around the town is much more suitable to wagons being able to bring goods in. Many other ports we stopped in were surrounded by marsh and wetland.
The water here is brackish, and not salt water. So New Bern is a river town in comparison to a coastal community. New Bern was the Colonial Capital from 1766 to 1776. It had the first printing press in the New World and it is also known as the birthplace of Pepsi Cola!!! Being the curious sort, I wondered which came first: Coke or Pepsi. I love the Internet!! Coca-cola 1886. Pepsi 1898. And now, you know.
No comments:
Post a Comment