This Small Town is Always UNDERWATER! 

So happy to see you guys and Ben and Tambi and Molly out sailing again! Life is good!

I lived in Oriental for a few years. Fun little town, the inhabitants of which can get pretty rowdy. The new years celebration is NUTS. Because the wind tides are so prevalent, all it takes to cause some flooding along the waterfront is a few days in a row of westerly wind. I was there for hurricane Joaquin, which is the highest I ever saw it. Thigh high water in the road in front of the bean. Funny story about the piggley wiggley. The building they're in was built by Wal-Mart for one of their neighborhood stores. Obviously all the small town shops couldn't compete with the prices, so a handful went out of business almost immediately. The Wal-Mart then closed, having been open less than a year. Not only was this shitty for the owners who went under, just to have Wal-Mart move out, but it left lots of people with only a family dollar for groceries since the next town was like 11 miles away and lots of residents didn't drive. It made national news, they called it a grocery desert. Anyway, piggley wiggley opened a store there and saved the day.

Wow, crazy flooding! Keep em' coming guys!

Loved watching the few seconds of you leaving the harbor with all the commercial shrimp and fishing boats!

Hey you kids were dealing with an amazingly HIGH tide there In Oriental! Yes, and thank goodness for that little heater too! Lola looked not excited about going ashore to do her business but apparently went it's time its' time. Thanks for the Kate's junk bunk shot Wes. I just knew there had to a part of the boat that looked that way. Glad to see you heading further south and into warmer weather. So happy to be watching you kids living your dream!

Hello wes and Kate. So good to see you two again. I love your videos. Keep up the good work. ⛵ ⛵ ⛵

We sailed around Oriental for 12 years before untying the dock lines. Love the Bean. Tom at Oriental Marina is awesome. We've stayed in your slip more times than I can remember. Glad you got to experience this great cruising town. Sail on!

Wish I'd known you were here. Been watching your videos for quite a while and would have enjoyed meeting you. Please come again one day! And safe travels to the three of you.

That looks like a pyracantha bush that has been pruned into a tree. Birds LOVE to nest in them.

Glad you got provisioned up well at Mr Piggly! (what a great name) Bet you'll be glad to get outside and to get sailing again, all that steaming in the ICW would probably finish me off! We have a Webasto diesel heater it runs off the main fuel tank and blows hot air into the cabin, they are brilliant. Love your films, it's a great thing you guys are doing, keep them coming, wishing you fair winds and following seas.

Another great video.. thks guys!!!!

great video. thanks

Thanks for sharing 😎

So cool you can sail to the grocery store there

Great to meet you in Oriental!

Where we lived in Flordia on the west coast was this way...crystal river Flordia

It's been a little over two years since MrsTree and I were in the Bahamas, just about the same for you guys also hey? Enjoy the islands for us while we freeze in this artic vortex. Much love and respect sent to ya!

i have a heater just like that for my 35 foot camper , it works fantastic even up here in michigan when there's snow on the ground it'll heat up out if to set it too high

I keep saying the Bean needs to put in a drive through but for dinghies 😂

Good vid ya'll.

Enjoy your videos. Think you are all done with the cold? LOl

I stand corrected, my first mate says she runs oyr smaller little electric heater when underway and she also said she runs it off the honda genney as well. All this time I thought she was running it off our inverter while down below staying warm while I froze at thenhelm lol

We stayed right in front of the bean too, on the free dock. The bean was still closed back then, a little before Thanksgiving. The water was pretty high but not that high. It wasn't over the finger docks but it seemed like it was only a few inches before it was over the wall to the road The pig came and got us, like an hour after we called them -right when they said they would come. No trouble getting ahold of them. That's a long walk. I hope you at least got a ride back.

Kate and Wes, heard you made it to Miami, check out Oleta state park anchorage

12 volt heater, no way. Get a propane that takes the small canisters. We even put it under the dodger when we’re on the mooring.

Lola definitely looked like a "deer in the headlights" in this video. I guess it was all the cold and water everywhere. Do you think she is embarrassed at having to be lifted up the companionway? Anyway, loved the video as always!!! Surely you two are in the Bahamas by now, or at least puttering around Miami or something!!!

Nice vid guy's. Sail Safe. Ant & Cid SV Impavidus xx

I love here and it's NOT always under water lol

I suppose when we were kids what you are experincing would be a dream come true.

Yooo thats my home

They're probably not needing heaters in the Bahamas right now.

Holy shit was that an ipod nano around 8 minutes?

2 stroke haha I thought you guys said 2 cycle?? we say 2 stroke here in Australia... surprised me there.

You mentioned the shallow spots on the ICW, is your Catalina a wing keel?

Did Piggly Wiggly give you a ride back?

Wicked Salty, What is the depth and length of your boat,

what, wrightsville beach? lol im kidding it used to be my favorite, but carolina beach has that old feel. so i moved there. but wrightsville is far more accessible than carolina beach. but were a small drinking town with a fishing problem, who else can say that :)

Rename it the "Icy-W" until you get to Jacksonville... :D

What are those red berries?

I'm not understanding why you're not splitting up shifts and motoring 24/7

Come on you guys you have had internet everyday and it is Feburary 6 and your just putting this video up and it's before Christmas for you that is really bad

Not always under water. Only when the wind is from a Northerly direction. LOL We get a wind tide rather than lunar tides here in Oriental