Tuesday, August 15th - to Emerald Isle, NC

This morning we fueled up (never want to be low on fuel when in a hurricane zone) and drove to Emerald Isle, NC. This is on a VERY narrow barrier island that actually runs east to west. We are camped at Camp Ocean Forest, just a few feet from the Atlantic Ocean. Actually, only the dunes and sea oats separate us from the beach.

This is a very old camp and the sites are not laid out for large coaches and slideouts. MA did the backing and I did the directing using walkie-talkies. MA got Blaze (the coach) situated and then several men from next door had to go congratulate MA for such a fine job! This is a pic from on top of the coach looking over the dumes to the ocean.

Turns out that one of the men is Steve Mullis who is the father of Ron Mullis who is married to Amanda, one of Ashley's close friends from East Carolina University. Ron and Amanda were at Ashley & Javi's wedding on the island of St. John's, USVI. Small world!

After dinner, I walked over to the long Bogue Inlet Pier and watched the fishermen reel in a 6 foot shark. They did not actually land the shark because shark fishing is not permitted off the pier but they got the shark into full view and then cut it loose.