May 21, 2011
Waves, Manteo, Nag's Head NC
Day #9




A lone shrimp boat on a calm sea off  Waves NC


Thankfully, Molly continues to improve, she's bossing us around again.

The weather was almost perfect, save for the occasional smell of smoke drifting in from the wildfire. We decided that we had enough sun yesterday, so we would explore a little of the area today.


But first we needed to do a little housekeeping, RV'ing is no different that regular life,  there are chores.    Jim did the laundry (a fact that I still can't believe, he has NEVER done a single load at home) and some outside RV stuff, while I vacuumed, and cleaned the floors, bathroom and kitchen. 

We traveled north on US12 (the only road, actually) toward Nag's Head and Manteo.  We stopped along the way to see the Bodie Island Lighthouse, a beautiful structure, built in 1872. 


Bodie Lighthouse

Crossed over the Oregon Inlet all the while marveling at the numerous fishing boats harbored on the sound side.  Great fishing here...I'm sure my son would love to go out on one of those boats. 



Oregon Inlet on a calm day



Before long we were in Nag's Head and headed for the Tanger stores so Jim could replace the sandals that he's had for way too long.  A friend of his asked if Jesus had walked in those sandals! 

Wanting some fresh fish (we so miss our son in that department) we stopped at a seafood market.  They had plenty of fresh looking fish, we chose grouper.  Unfortunately, the woman behind the counter intentionally lied when we asked her where the red snapper was caught.  She told us “South Carolina”.
Sorry ma'am, that would be illegal... 

We had never been in Manteo, a little west of where we were.  The weather was just too perfect to do anything but enjoy the outdoors.  Manteo has a little historic, artsy, waterfront area.  We parked and walked the waterfront.  On the out of town we found an ice cream store...we are very good at sniffing out ice cream!

Back to the RV, we relaxed, walked on the beach a little and had a great dinner of grilled grouper (it was really fresh) local asparagus, and red bliss potatoes that my daughter had grown in her garden. 
This was the best beach weather weekend so far this year for the area,  Glad we timed it right!   Last year's trip seemed just the opposite.  Seemed every town we pulled into set a bad weather record!

Tomorrow we travel to Williamsburg.