A brace of caravels makes its way up the ICW
While riding past the South Ave. waterfront, I saw this rather anachronistic sight on the River Neuse.
Guessing these vessels were headed north on the Intracoastal Waterway, I took a little drive up to Hobucken, hoping to intercept the pair and get a closer look.
Turns out they are the Niña and the Pinta, home port Wilmington Delaware, replicas of their namesakes built by The Columbus Foundation. You can read all about them and see plenty more pics at The Columbus Foundation website. The schedule on the site shows that the ships were on their way to Philadelphia from their last stop in Georgetown SC.
Here are a couple more I took from the banks of the ICW ditch at Hobucken as the caravels headed past the R.E. Mayo & Co. fish-house docks, the Hobucken bridge and the Hobucken Coast Guard station:
(Click on any image for full size)
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