On this picture you can see, how standing on the sand dune, there is water right there on both sides.
The plan was to fly to North Carolina to participate the graduation of Scott's nephew on Saturday. Like it is sometimes with plans, we had to activate plan B that we didn't have by that time yet. Since I woke up with huge migraine that morning, which didn't show any signs of getting any better even by afternoon, it was clear that I will not be able to sit in the car and drive to airport. Not even mentioning flying to another state. We got new tickets for Friday early morning.
We got up on Friday before roosters and dusk and drove to the airport. Since in this part of the world the summertime only means warm weather and not white nights, the sun only started to rise around 6am, once we had already arrived in the airport. We flew to Norfolk, got our rental car, had a quick lunch on the way and in no time, 3 hours later, pulled into the driveway. Mere 9 hours after getting up and 8 hours after leaving the house.
Hatteras is a 50 miles long barrier island, with widest dimension of 3,5 miles and otherwise the self-appointed land surveyor would say that most of the island is just 0,350 miles wide and in southern part there are just thin stripes of beach on both sides of the road. The island is divided in three areas, out of which Rhodante is the most famous one, having hosted Richard Gere for numerous nights. So, those are the educational and entertainment minutes of the day and I'll move to more interesting topics, which are what we did there.
We went to the beach. And I learned that it's totally acceptable to drive your car to the beach, almost to the line of water and take your beach towels or chairs out there to start sunbathing or drinking beer. Or fishing between the surfers.
We went out to eat to Mad Crabber, Hatteras Sol, Dairy Queen and some burger joint. In the Mad Crabber, very thoughtfully they had covered the tables with big white papers and there were also some crayons. While waiting for the food, I draw myself a healthy salad to start with.
And we went to Zeb's graduation. Like in the theater we were given the printed programm, but everything else was like in the movie - after getting the diploma, all tassels were moved from right to left, to notify everyone about the new status and everyone threw the hat in the air. Also the net above their heads was opened and all the graduates flooded with balloons.
We also did some sightseeing - saw the houses on posts (around 90% of the houses on the island seemed to be built on posts), fishermen, an abandoned house and shopped in a souvenir shop.
However - since one picture tells more than 1000 words, I'm going to save the next 10K+ words as well as the precious time of my readers and uploaded a bunch of pictures instead.
We got up on Friday before roosters and dusk and drove to the airport. Since in this part of the world the summertime only means warm weather and not white nights, the sun only started to rise around 6am, once we had already arrived in the airport. We flew to Norfolk, got our rental car, had a quick lunch on the way and in no time, 3 hours later, pulled into the driveway. Mere 9 hours after getting up and 8 hours after leaving the house.
Hatteras is a 50 miles long barrier island, with widest dimension of 3,5 miles and otherwise the self-appointed land surveyor would say that most of the island is just 0,350 miles wide and in southern part there are just thin stripes of beach on both sides of the road. The island is divided in three areas, out of which Rhodante is the most famous one, having hosted Richard Gere for numerous nights. So, those are the educational and entertainment minutes of the day and I'll move to more interesting topics, which are what we did there.
We went to the beach. And I learned that it's totally acceptable to drive your car to the beach, almost to the line of water and take your beach towels or chairs out there to start sunbathing or drinking beer. Or fishing between the surfers.
We went out to eat to Mad Crabber, Hatteras Sol, Dairy Queen and some burger joint. In the Mad Crabber, very thoughtfully they had covered the tables with big white papers and there were also some crayons. While waiting for the food, I draw myself a healthy salad to start with.
And we went to Zeb's graduation. Like in the theater we were given the printed programm, but everything else was like in the movie - after getting the diploma, all tassels were moved from right to left, to notify everyone about the new status and everyone threw the hat in the air. Also the net above their heads was opened and all the graduates flooded with balloons.
We also did some sightseeing - saw the houses on posts (around 90% of the houses on the island seemed to be built on posts), fishermen, an abandoned house and shopped in a souvenir shop.
However - since one picture tells more than 1000 words, I'm going to save the next 10K+ words as well as the precious time of my readers and uploaded a bunch of pictures instead.
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