Portsmouth Island 2016 (1 Viewer)
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Yep.
Phew, we're tired. What a weekend. @custyota says hello 
Had a ball!! Thanks @FJ Junkie for setting this up as usual
Pics and trip report coming. Uploading first round of youtube videos now.
Had a ball!! Thanks @FJ Junkie for setting this up as usual
Pics and trip report coming. Uploading first round of youtube videos now.
lumbee1
Native American
Looks awesome! I tell people that we really wanted to go and so many have no idea what I am talking about - long time NC folks. We hope to go next time!
Any pics of the village? How were the bugs? The usual response I get when talking about this trip is "oh there are too many bugs there."
Any pics of the village? How were the bugs? The usual response I get when talking about this trip is "oh there are too many bugs there."
Cabin rental booking opens in early January. Sarah will determine our dates and secure 3-4 cabins again on the day booking opens. We've always done this trip as a first come/first served and split cabin costs by dividing that by attendees (Sarah pays and gets reimbursed by attendees). Ferry reservations are made and paid by attendees (max 6 vehicles per load, departs every 2 hours as needed).
So, just post up in the 2017 Portsmouth thread that'll be created once cabins are secured.
lumbee1
Native American
Sign me up for next year!
Hit the 1pm Friday ferry over with @lumbee1 and @SeanLX . Fished, drank beer and had a bonfire:
Saturday we cruised the beach, fixed some problems, drank, played horseshoes, went to portsmouth village, drank, fished and caught nothing, drank some more, etc.
Sunday was relaxing, then the ferry home!!
Had 6 vehicles on the ferry on the way back. I was loaded backwards, which was weird, but made it home without incident.
Thanks again everyone!!!
Saturday we cruised the beach, fixed some problems, drank, played horseshoes, went to portsmouth village, drank, fished and caught nothing, drank some more, etc.
Sunday was relaxing, then the ferry home!!
Had 6 vehicles on the ferry on the way back. I was loaded backwards, which was weird, but made it home without incident.
Thanks again everyone!!!
I didn't take any pics of the village this year, but I know @Green Hell Mustang and @SeanLX did for sure.
There were a few house-type flies (just enough to notice, not so many to be annoying) and very, very few mosquitoes or biting flies. The reason we go in november is so that the bugs & people are few and far between
Green Hell Mustang
Designer, Hack Photographer
I had a great time! I will post pictures as soon as I get the chance to edit them down.
Aside from having the truck almost get overheated, it was a great trip.
Aside from having the truck almost get overheated, it was a great trip.
Some of it, yes. We left our smarts on the mainland.
The river-looking pics is purported to be fresh water. I, once again, forgot to take a taste to confirm. There were a few saltwater crossings that Hurricane Matthew most likely created on the beach. This limited our time at the village since we had to cross the part of the beach that was now covered in tide pools and drainage creeks - they really filled fast after low tide. We had a laugh while we were debating crossing one of the salt streams when a full sized fishing rig was leaving the other side and the water was deep enough that it floated his coolers off of his hitch platform carrier. We stopped him and I chased down the cooler that had floated the furthest out to sea. You'd think he would've been happier than he was.
The mosquitos were HORRIBLE on Friday on the road to the village. Giant basturds that covered your flesh and filled your truck through any opening. There was almost no breeze that day. The other parts of the island that we frequented on Friday was relatively bug-free, but I did open my truck on Saturday and Sunday mornings to dozens of flies that weren't there the nights before. The village road and the dunes have the only vegetation on the island, other than the greenery that's off limits on the sound side.
I'll have more pics once Sarah goes through what she took. I only took a few dozen shots, mostly of the same 5 things, and most didn't tun out.
I thought I remember hearing that the water road was brakish water. Wasn't trying to taste the muddy-and-probably-salty swamp water though 
