Todd and I were so excited because we were asked to go to North Carolina with Todd's parents and some of their friends. When Todd was younger, he went every single year, until he was about a sophomore in high school, to NC's Outer Banks. His parents still go, but since Todd and I are married now, we were able to go together. For those of you who are not familiar with the Outer Banks, it's on an island on the coast. You have to cross a bridge in order to get onto the island and then drive up the coast. We stayed in Corolla, which is almost to the end of the island, about a mile before where the road ends and past the road you must have 4 Wheel Drive in order to drive on the sand, and you must time yourself with the tide. Pretty cool! That's where all the wild horses are and roam free, one of the very few places in which horses still do that. It was cool! But we rented the grey house, which was right across the street from the coast. The other house that I'm pointing at, was right across the street. It was absolutely gorgeous! But our house was nice as well... they all were in the $1+million dollar range, we found that out because a couple of them were for sale and had flyers out front. It was so nice!
The first day there, we got in later in the day, but still enough time to walk the beach. What a beautiful place to be!
We got up super early one morning to watch the sun rise. We decided to go down to the island where the road ends and walk up the beach to see if we saw any wild horses. As you can see the tire tracks in the first photo, that's the road pretty much, and when the tide is up... it's even harder to drive on. That's what I meant when I said time your trips with the tide. It was really beautiful and peaceful down at the end. We tried to walk to see some of the houses, but realized that they were further than we thought. So that's us at 5ish in the morning. Ha!!
We drove down the coast to this light house, which was extremely cool to see. There was one by our house, but it was just a red brick, not as cool as this one. The sky was beautiful this day. But for some reason... they have it fenced around with a bright orange plastic fence, which ruins the whole photo. So black and white it was. We used this photo for a lovely father's day gift, it was a hit! After seeing the couple lighthouses that I did, which I've never seen one in person before this... I'm so fascinated by them. I think they are beautiful!
We did do some fancying up to go shopping around the little shops. They were so neat. I got a few things, but the funnest part was later that evening when we went down to the beach with a flashlight. Allllllll the crabs come out. They are called ghost crabs, hinse the white shell. They are hilarious, running sideways. But you go to the beach with a flash light and shine the light and it scares them... they go speeding off. But the funny part is they are all over. They dig holes throughout the day and hide out in them then at night they are wild. Ha! They don't hurt you, just funny to watch! That was pretty funny.
But all in all the trip was great. 80's and sunny every day, except the first and the last day we were there. Made us want to stay longer! We had to cut the trip early due to a wedding we had on Saturday, but it was so nice to relax for the week. It felt great, but a week is never long enough. We would love to make this an annual trip, so if you are interested in renting with us we would love to get some people together to make the trip. What a beautiful vacation! I'll probably put more landscape photos up when I actually have time to work on them. :)
