. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Bonny Blue. LEFT: The last remaining structure of the original Dismal Swamp Canal Company still stands about 12 miles north of South Mills. RIGHT: jeff Moore and Merritt Walter take a break aboard the Bonny Blue. some pilings, Walter shows passengers where fishing camps used to stand. "They used to bring lumber barges along here, but stopped this in the early 1970s," he adds. "You can see where the barges banged old trees and took off the bark when coming down the ; n'ow Birders F
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Bonny Blue. LEFT: The last remaining structure of the original Dismal Swamp Canal Company still stands about 12 miles north of South Mills. RIGHT: jeff Moore and Merritt Walter take a break aboard the Bonny Blue. some pilings, Walter shows passengers where fishing camps used to stand. "They used to bring lumber barges along here, but stopped this in the early 1970s," he adds. "You can see where the barges banged old trees and took off the bark when coming down the ; n'ow Birders Frequent Canal While heading toward Turner's Cut — "the snakiest part of the river," according to Walter — the Bonny Blue nears a parade of sailboats. 'This is part of the north-south crowd that goes north in the spring and south in the fall," he says. From radio conversations, Walter and other captains know each other by the names of their boats. As he looks over at one large boat, he explains that the family, including two school-age children, has spent the last year in the Bahamas. "They are heading back up the East Coast," he says. Around noon, the mates serve lunch on the top deck. Not long after, the Bonny Blue nears the South Mills lock that opens four times a day. The captain moors alongside the lock wall, and several other sailboats moor on the starboard side. When the lockmaster opens the gate, the rushing water sounds like a washing machine. He motions for the boats to come through. "We have light head current," says Walter. "We are running in six feet of ; As the boat passes by a bank covered with a canopy of trees, he announces: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is an exciting time. We have crossed the North Carolina state line into ; Then he gives a history lesson on the canal's famed halfway house where folks used to come to duel — or to get married. "The attraction was that the house was h
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