Tuesday morning we visited the Bodie Island Lighthouse (chosen because our nephew’s name is Boden). Unfortunately, the proper pronunciation seems to be like “body” and you can only go up 12 steps…not all 214. On the plus side, it was free unlike the Currituck Lighthouse which was $7/person to climb. And no, we did not climb the Currituck Lighthouse. On the down side, the historic pond behind the lighthouse was a breeding ground for mosquitos. I went in with 2 bites and came out with about a dozen.
After the lighthouse fun, we got some bait and headed to a dock to crab and fish. We caught 3 keeper-crabs but one got away since the lid to the cooler was off. We also caught a couple small fish.
The latter part of Tuesday afternoon was spent watching the fishing charters come in at Oregon Inlet and mini golfing.
Tuesday night we steamed the crabs we had caught (8 in all). It was fun teaching Max to eat them. His excitement over eating something he had caught was contagious.
Wednesday was HOT. We started to go on a tour of the Army Corps of Engineers Research Facility here in Duck, but it started kinda of slow boring and was all outside. Since we hadn’t really spent time on the beach, we lathered up and headed out. By the end of a couple hours, the older two were in love with the ocean. Mia went way out and enjoyed some independent floating (wearing her life vest). She thoroughly enjoyed the wave swells. PJ enjoyed riding the waves in as they broke at the shoreline. Ty wasn’t sure whether to love or hate the water and he spent a lot of time trying to join other party’s parked along the beach.
After lunch, we headed north to Corolla to a weekly wine festival. It was small so we just looked around and headed out for ice cream. On our way home, Patrick and PJ tried for some more crabs but were unsuccessful. We have 6 in the fridge from Chris and Sean’s early Wednesday morning expedition.
Wednesday night Amy and I tried to rendezvous in the hot tub with a glass of wine but someone had turned it down and it wasn’t much warmer than the pool water.