Escaping the heat

Buying hot sauce is surely the best way to avoid the heat right?

Sunrise

That's one BIG Croc

Empty Beach

Whalehead beach is often empty on Saturday :)

Deck Pano

The view from the house is always nice

Sunrise

Feeding the Turtles

Feeding the Turtles

A Turtle (who was fed)

Feeding the Turtles

Not quite tall enough

Stupid minimum height for driving the go-karts... next time for sure (or we'll have thicker soled shoes.)

Ice Cream Truck!

Sunrise

Sleeping

Even with the sunrise in his eyes he's still sleeping

Pulling apart an owl pellet

Um...

The outer banks has a long tradition of hunting and fishing, especially duck hunting. This is in the North Carolina Education Center http://www.ncwildlife.org/obx

Picking apart an owl pellet

Fire

The Brindley Beach Vacations building in Corolla Light burned entirely to the ground while we were there. The fire also damaged several adjacent buildings http://www.brindleybeach.com/

Samantha Naps

I was left in charge of watching her. She didn't move the entire time. :)

Sunset

An approaching storm

Oskar

Salps (or Jellyfish)

These little guys felt and looked like Jellyfish. I was told they're called Salps but the coast of NC doesn't seem like part of their normal habitat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salp

Shipwreck (Unknown)

The storms of Spring 2015 uncovered this wreck (again). It's well on it's way to being buried again, but some of it is still visible.

"The nor'easter storms of late November and mid December, 2009, exposed a number of wreck sites along the Outer Banks. This is one of them, which appeared when the dunes in the Corolla area were severely eroded because of storm wave action.

The visible portion of the central beam was over 50 feet long, making this one of the larger wrecks along the Outer Banks. It would hardly take a foot of sand to cover this wreckage, and if the dunes build up again, it will be hidden even deeper once again." - from http://www.carolinaouterbanks.com/folklore3.htm

Location: N 36.32952 W 075.81068

A "Stop sign for people"

Cheese faces

Connor in the sound

Samantha in the sound

Connor

The boys leave on an expedition

The four kids explore the sound by boat

Four kids explore the sound by boat

Xavier

Hiking up Jockey's Ridge

Water stop

Xavier and Samantha

Four Cousins

Oskar, Connor, Xavier and Samantha stopped for a photo

Samantha makes a sand angel

Oskar

Connor

Xavier

This is before Xavier decided to bury himself in the sand.

Vince and Jan

Pirate Ship

The Outer Banks Brewing Station has a great playground and outdoor beer garden where kids run wild and climb on the pirate ship and parents can drink some beer and enjoy an excellent meal. http://www.obbrewing.com/

Sunset at Jockey's Ridge

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Sunset at Jockey's Ridge

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Gretchen and Samantha

Sunset at Jockey's Ridge

Pano at Jockey's Ridge

Complete with distorted Vince

Sunset Color

Jockey's Ridge

Sunrise