Wilmington, NC is up the Cape Fear River about 15-20 miles from Southport and the Cape Fear Inlet. This is a really lovely town with a BIG commercial ship port, and a very nice downtown area on the River a few miles further upstream. We stayed right downtown at the foot of the street that is in the center of the historical area. Took a trolley tour of town and saw lots of pretty homes and churches, rode on brick streets and heard lots of history; both revolutionary war and civil war. The area never fully recovered from the civil war as the newer areas inland became the new centers for North Carolina. This town is now a large historical district (about 230 square blocks) and is still the way it was in earlier times. Pleasant to be here.
KOKOMO II completed the "Great Loop" over three summers from May 2007 to November 2009. The cruising plan for 2010 is from Stuart, Florida, up the Intercoastal Waterway to the Chesapeake, down the Delaware and around to NYC and up the Hudson to Lake Champlain, the Richelieu to Montreal, then west on the St Lawrence River to the 1000 Islands and Kingston, then across Lake Ontario to Oswego, the Erie Canal, down the Hudson to NYC and back to Stuart. kokomox2@yahoo.com
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