Beach Time

Last weekend I traveled down to North Carolina's Crystal Coast
  
I tried out many of their restaurants....

 And had a lot of great seafood...

and even a sinful Mud-pie Dessert

 
 I went to a great "surfer" church...   
called One Harbor church in Morehead City  
Afterwards I visited historic Ft. Macon

 Someone I'm related to...

 volunteers at the Visitor Center Desk on Sundays

 Once a Civil War Encampment...

 It also saw use during WWII

A cannon ball once rolled down these stairs.

After a great tour of the fort
 I visited Duke University's  Marine Lab

near historic Beaufort

 where someone I know works & goes to school.

 I was able to stay in this nice house

 

 

 just a short walk to the beach...  

After 3 days of rain, I finally got some sun...

One morning I went on Turtle Patrol

Looking for any signs of a nest during the night.

 We found tracks---but not turtle tracks...

 some jellyfish

 a dead fish or two...

But No Turtle nests...
THE BIGGEST SHOCK OF MY TRIP
was to learn that in this land 
of tattoos and tobacco trucks...

wind and surf...

pine bits being sent to Turkey for particle board..

I had found myself in a 
HOT BED OF RADICAL 
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITY!!

YES!!
HERE'S PROOF:

HANDS ACROSS THE SAND 

Read the article and see if you 
recognize any of those crazy people....