Mini Trip - part 2

We couldn't quite shake our "arrival experience" and the weather on Sunday didn't help. We feel for all those involved especially the widower having lost his wife and daughters. But it always makes one think and be grateful for one's blessings.

Monday was a much better day. Like Saturday it was gorgeous. 

Soon we decided to have our walk on the beach. The tide was right and we wanted to go to the left. We had not been able to do that yet. There were so many anglers on the beach. Many, many. Everyone was friendly and you exchanged some words with them. Socially distancing of course. 

The first proudly showed off his catch. Seemed like everybody wanted to catch a red drum. There is a 1 a day limit and we witnessed an (adult) son just having caught his second. His father said "you caught one for me" but his son quickly released it. On our way back the father ran to us happily saying that he had caught one too. Of course we were very sure about the ones who did not release but quickly brought something to the car.

The walk to the left was very interesting too but we could not go too far because some of the houses were very close to the water. Very!

Just didn't feel like walking underneath balconies and battling the waves there. Can you see it in the distance?

So back we walked. 

And further along all the way to the beach behind the lighthouse this time. 

There was one stop were we HAD TO stand and watch for a while. You can not really see it in this photo but there were about 2 dozen surfers their black rubber suits. Some were really good and rode the waves. 

Too bad that in the blog the photo is not a LIVE shot. These birds were so cute. There were 2 bigger birds and lots of little ones. I thought it must be a family but there were too many little ones to be one brood. 

Getting hungry for lunch. Back to the e. house

We hopped into the car and continued on the road we came on to Hatteras Village. We had inquired at a tourist information and the NC Maritime Museum was suggested. It was also called "Graveyard of the Atlantic" and very interesting. 

And then we were hungry for lunch. We had asked about it earlier at the information center and were told that not much was there for outdoor lunching. But there was "Tavern on the 12". And it was very nice with picnic benches outdoors (not the most comfortable but o.k.) under a roof. 

Yes, we had an appetizer: oven roasted oysters on the half shell. Very nice. Afterwards we had crab cake sliders and shrimp po' boy sandwich, which we shared. The two plates came with a huge amount of french fries. There was no way we could finish those. 

I must have been really hungry though because this is the only photo I took the whole time.

This photo is actually the very last one I took of our mini vacation. Hard to believe. There was some more walking and some packing.

Tuesday we headed home. We were supposed to be out of the house at 10 am which was no problem. We had packed some sandwiches for lunch and took our time driving along. You drive a long time on a slow road on the Outer Banks but it is interesting too and we were not in a hurry. It was very good for us to get away for a few days.