Old Town Herron 9, 1 hour and 15 minutes, 2 nautical miles

Romancoke On The Bay Clubhouse beach launch.  As I was putting in the water dark clouds were moving east south of me.  When I got onto the water in spit of the fact I was hugging the lee shore line the water was kind of choppy.  I considered abborting the mission, but decided to continue.  Wind was 20 mph and gusting to 30 or more.  Temperature was about 50 degrees.  I headed North to get behind some houses to cut off the West wind.  That kinda worked for awhile.The wind did drop to about 14 mph toward the end of my ride which made for a smoother ride.  There were rolling waves coming out of the southeast, which I did not understand.