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 1/7- Cedar Point campground, Croatian National Forest, Swansboro NC

    Happy Birthday to my granddaughter Fay. 

   Last night was interesting. We parked in an almost empty lot but by 9pm the place was filled with semis. Of course most of them were idling away to keep the heat on. The one next to us turned the reefer on so he could keep the whole load of Perdue chickens from melting. It literally vibrated the rv it was so loud. Fortunately that only lasted an hour. 

   In the morning the trucks were slowly peeling of to deliver their goods. Meanwhile we went land yachting across Chesapeake Bay. The wind was fairly light so it was a nice ride across on the bridge. 

   Once clear of Virginia Beach we headed south where we came across the Dismal Swamp canal. We stopped and walked along remembering when we drove our boat down through here. Those were not such great memories as we bumped bottom a bunch of times and trimmed some trees with our mast. We were just glad to get out of there then. Now we blew right by it in an hour and didn’t hit anything. We did stop at the visitor center to see the dock we stayed at. 

   Onward from here was traversing cypress forests and swamps. I was pretty amazed at how flat it was here. The tops of the bridges were as high as anything. This whole area must have been swamp at sometime as we were constantly crossing over water. There were rivers, creeks, sloughs, cricks and what have you all interspersed with forests of pine and cypress. 

   The best part is that as the day went on we kept peeling layers. The temperature made all the way up to 77 at one point. That’s more like it!

    We settled for the night in a national forest campground. It’s a nice quiet place especially after last night. I expected to see some beach here possibly but we haven’t found it yet. 

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