{"id":628,"date":"2016-05-10T19:21:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T19:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=628"},"modified":"2016-05-10T19:21:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T19:21:58","slug":"april-showers-brings-may-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"April showers&#8230;..brings May showers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>29 \u00a0&amp; 30 April<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-634 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1020815-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1020815\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1020815-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1020815-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>After we left Morehead City this is one of the vessels that\u00a0passed us. \u00a0You can&#8217;t really get a sense of how huge these tug and barges are until they are alongside you. \u00a0We give them as much space as we safely can.<\/p>\n<p>. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1020816.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-635 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1020816-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1020816\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1020816-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/P1020816-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0continued up the ICW to revisit River Dunes Marina, the resort marina we also enjoyed on our trip south. \u00a0Again, looking at the weather, and trying to plan for our crossing of the Albermarle Sound in a few days we opted to enjoy the facilities here for a couple of days. \u00a0The amenities include a hot tub\/spa and\u00a0steam showers which are incredibly awesome! \u00a0Imagine hot water (as hot as you would want) coming from above, plus four jets of hot water surrounding your body and then hot steam enveloping your entire body all at the same time! \u00a0Heaven whilst standing up! \u00a0Add to that, decadent dining at the exquisite restaurant, and this off day was indeed rejuvenating.<\/p>\n<p>Can we stay another day?<\/p>\n<p>But no &#8211; as we are watching the ever changing forecast we will continue on tomorrow for 47 miles to Dowry Creek and then assess if we hunker down another day or continue on to Alligator River to prepare to cross the Albermarle Sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 \u00a0&amp; 30 April After we left Morehead City this is one of the vessels that\u00a0passed us. \u00a0You can&#8217;t really get a sense of how huge these tug and barges are until they are alongside you. \u00a0We give them as much space as we safely can. . \u00a0 We\u00a0continued up the ICW to revisit River &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April showers&#8230;..brings May showers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}