Hot Day and Stinging things in the Water

Today was quite hot all over the outer banks. We went to the beach at around noon. The water was warm, but after a few minutes we had to escape--things were stinging us! Couldn't see anything. We consoled ourselves by going to get a little something to eat which turned out to be a tasty fresh yellowtail tuna filet. We came back to the villa and did some work, and then went across the causeway into Manteo to go on a sunset sailing trip on the Downeast Rover

We got on the boat


It was chock full of people, but we were in the after area and it was amiable and not crowded. The young woman who was crewing on the Rover said that we had probably encountered a combination of sea lice and dismembered jellyfish. We hope they will be gone in the morning.

Here are some pictures.







How 'bout those old salts. Then we had to get a little something to eat and even though they were out of softshell crabs we found some other fish and consoled ourselves with the homemade key lime pie.

Nag's Head August 2008

Back at our little Ocean Villa. Margaret first came to the Outer Banks in 1959, came back when she was at Duke, and then we came in 1987. Things probably changed less between 1959 and 1987 than they have in the last 20 years. So far, we have had NC barbecue, fresh seafood including our favorite place for softshell crab, and a dolphin sandwich at John's Drive-in. (Note: it's not the flipper kind of dolphin, it's a small fish)

Mostly we have been at the beach.

On the other hand, it isn't all about the food, we saw this line-up of charter boats back from a day off of Hatteras.