Snowbirds in Flight Elizabeth City's free public dock held 20 or more migrating snowbirds as a cold front passed through. At 0800 hours on November 5th the weather window opened and within minutes we were all in flight, sailing into the early morning sun on the open water of Albemarle Sound. We travelled through the Alligator River and onward to the Pungo River canal. We had planned to anchor at Mile 114(ICW)in the anchorage listed in our Chartracker guide, however there was inadequate depth and we were forced to carry on. Both sides of the narrow canal were strewn with tree stumps sticking out, as well the shoreline was badly eroded caused by the wake of high speed power boats as they make their way out to the ocean. An attempt to anchor for the night before the sun set saw our anchor stuck in a mass of logs while a huge power boat shot by leaving us to deal with his inconsiderate bad manners and wake. Unable to anchor we were forced to carry on through the treacherous canal but luck was on our side as our course was 270 degrees magnetic. We could see that we were in the centre of the canal by the light of the setting sun on the water and luckily as well, there was also a full moon that night. With the use of our depth sounder we arrived safely at the next anchorage (M127)and spent a restful night after travelling 75 miles today. We were thankful of our CPS training today.