A Vote For An Overnight Stay at Mile Hammock Bay Anchorage (Statute Mile 244.5)
Over the years, the entrance to Mile Hammock Bay has gotten infrequently shoally, but that is not the case now, and, as noted by Captain Gantt, unless the US Marines are conducting exercises, this is a great place to drop the hook and spend a quiet evening. Just don’t try dinghying ashore. All the surrounding land is military property and off limits to cruisers.
For those heading south, Mile Hammock Bay is a very good anchoring area. It is a couple miles south of Onslow Beach Bridge and before the intersection of the ICW with the New River. The area is within the U.S. Marine Base Camp Lejeune but unless the Marines are having an exercise in the area, is available to ICW travelers. We keep our boat at Old Ferry Marina which is a couple miles up the New River, and frequently go to Mile Hammock Bay with others for rafting up, etc.
Reid Gantt,
Atlantic 30
“Vouivre”
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