Bronco busting!

But first…I forgot to share video of our new best friend! This guy escorted us for about a half hour yesterday. The video is just a few seconds. Now, down to current events…we left Southport at about 7 this morning and started regretting that decision within about a half hour! Wind was howling from ENE and we were headed NE (of course). To make it interesting. Current was running with us, causing standing waves about 4-5’ high. A few coming close enough together to result in salt water shower up on bridge deck (followed quickly by some colorful language by the captain!). This is what it looked like after calming down a bit. Cape Fear River is NOT one of my favorite places! Fortunately, our path took us more NE (off the river) and wind shifted to E and then SE and water flattened out but we were pretty wet from the salt showers so even just the wind made things pretty cold. As we neared Wrightsville Beach bridge we realized we’d just missed the 10 am ...