The weekend of October 19-21, 2001 saw four of us meet at Oak Island on Double Bayou, east Trinity Bay. The weather was cool and the winds light. After we were all launched we motored up the bayou to find a place to tie up for the night. The bayou has two forks. The southern fork flows through private farm land. The northern fork is home to work boats, barges and shrimpers.
This is the bayou early in the morning. The wind was calm and the mosquitos were fierce. As the sun warms up the air the winds pick up and we can sail on the bay.
Louis Cisneros in "Tortuga" (L) and Randy Watkins in his Montgomery15, "Crystal Sea" (R).
Randy and Louis near sunset on the 20th, heading back to the bayou for the night.
The next morning we explored further up the bayou, looking for the anchorage of all the cabin cruisers and sailboats we had seen during the afternoon, heading up the bayou while we ate lunch at Channel Marker 17.
Double Bayou is heavily wooded along its banks for long stretches. Where the bank has been steeply cut by the currents it is possible to motor right up to the bank and tie up to a tree. At low tide there will be small mud flats along the bank.
We are motoring back to the main bayou. The anchored boats are around the bend.