DAY FOUR ON THE BEACH AT OAK ISLAND

Thankfully the sun was bright outside the windows this morning. I headed down to have breakfast with hubbie, #2 son, daughter and g-son who were already up.
We ate out on the front deck as we watched the ocean waves break on the beach, ahhhh , a very good way to start the day.
After everyone finished eating we headed on down to the beach to get our canopy set up and get ready for a day of fun in the sun.
Daughter and I decided to walk to the end of the island and check out the turtle nest that were next to hatch according to the lady at the last nest that hatched.

We ended up going all the way to the Cape Fear river where all the big cargo ships were going in and out of.

Along this beach , which surrounds the Fort Caswell Baptist Camp there isn't much beach at high tide and as we walked it was nearing the noon hour high tide today.
At the end we could see the Bald Island light house.

As we headed back the tide caught us and we had to walk through the waves in a couple places which for me made the walk harder because I have to wear shoes with my arch supports in them to walk like this so when they get wet they are slick and hard to walk in. I don't dare walk barefoot with my bad knees.
Daughter has a "fitbit" and it said we had walked 5 miles by the time we rejoined the family on the beach at our canopy.

It felt good for me to just sit and make pictures the rest of the day as everyone played on the beach and in the ocean waves.

The waves were terribly rough today but the ocean water was cooler than Sunday and Monday.
G-son really loves the ocean waves and stayed in the water almost the entire day.

We took our canopy down and came inside for showers about 4:30.
Hubbie and #2 son went into town to a BBQ House and picked up a take out supper for us.
It was very good BBQ and we all enjoyed it .
After we ate daughter, g-son and I went to check on the turtle nest that are already tunneled off , but here wasn't any activity yet.
Unfortunately high tide tonight is around midnight if they are hatching then so we will miss these.

Daughter and g-son played a game of tag as we walked along.

We found the Fort Caswell life guard stand .

Having fun on the beach .....

Love this little guy, although he isn't so little anymore.....

Walking into a lovely sunset to end another really nice day of beach fun.

God is so good, He is a magnificent creator of all the beauty for our eyes to behold. One reason I love to come to the seashore is the pure beauty of nature that only a loving Creator could bless His children with.
Good Night and God Bless

DAY THREE AT OAK ISLAND

Rain and high winds greeted us this morning. G-son said this must be what a hurricane looks like !!!

As we had breakfast the rain stopped and the clouds were flying across the sky so we were hoping the winds would blow the storm on past us quickly. The ocean looks very scary today with white caps as far as you can see.
Daughter needed her bus driver CDL license so she looked on the internet for a local DMV and found  that a mobile one was in South Port today.
We had been wanting to go look around at the little shops there anyway so today was a perfect time for both.
Hubbie and #2 son went along also. We dropped her at the DMV which was a big bus like the the mobile health clinics use. There were two people standing outside already so we thought she would have a wait so we drove on to find a parking spot and walk uptown. We went into a Christmas House and before I was finished paying for a couple ornament gifts I found in there daughter called and said she was finished. Turns out the two people on the outside were both waiting for the one person that was inside taking her test so daughter got right in.
Southport is an old town on the Cape Fear river, it reminds me a lot of Brevard in our mountains.

This guy was happily watching the shoppers walk past this shop.

We all looked around in several of the little shops, mostly antique and specialty shops.

We ate at this little corner market deli where they served Boar's head in their sandwiches. The food was very reasonable and very good. I had a turkey breast greek salad in a roasted red pepper wrap and it was delicious.

 We all look like we enjoyed our meal.

When we came out of the deli the rain was beginning so it was a race back to the Honda.
As we drove out of town we stopped in several thrift stores where the prices were great.
And in one of the consignment shops daughter couldn't pass these two tables up that perfectly match her things in her house.

We will struggled to find room to get them home but I'm sure where there is a will there is a way !!!
I almost bought this old spinning wheel. It was priced at $136 and was 50% off today.

It came apart so we could find room I think . I just don't know where I would put it in my house. I decided to wait until we get the car packed and then if there is room I will stop back by here and if it is still here then it must be meant for me to have it !!!!
We met up with #1 son's family who were just out for a drive after getting bored sitting in the house all day and went to a Habitat Re-store. No one found anything in there but #2 son and the china cabinet he found was way too big to even dream of finding room to haul home.
Back home the sun was starting to break through the clouds so daughter and I went for a walk on the beach. We kept watching the ominous clouds as they started to follow us up the beach. But in front of us was blue sky so we kept walking.

Until !!!!!!  The rain caught up with us.  We ran from the beach up someone's walkway and across the road to a house that looked like no one was there to get under the porch and call hubbie to come get us. We were soaked !!!  That's not sweat glistening off our skin and making my hair curly.

Our knight in a shiny Honda Pilot arrived with beach towels to dry us in no time flat and we were back in the house and dry.
Now the sun came back out !!!  The weather here at the coast changes quicker than our mountain weather.
We fixed spaghetti for supper tonight with salad and Texas toast.
We all ate way too much and I needed to do something to work off all that food so with the sun shining daughter and I joined by hubbie this time went out on another walk . This time down the road so we would be out of the wind.  To our dismay as soon as we looked over our shoulders this is what we saw following us again.

Optomistic that we couldn't get rained on twice the same day we continued on to the Oak Island light house.

The pavement was causing my hip to hurt and daughter wanted to walk on the beach anyway so we switched over to the beach for the walk home.

As we walked we watched the sky get darker and darker and saw the streaks of rain fall from the clouds.

Just as we were nearing our house the rain began again, but we only got sprinkled on before we made it back inside.
#2 son was sitting watching us hurrying up the walk from the beach and he said we should have learned the first time !!!
Another wonderfully blessed beach day. God is good every day in every way.
Good Night and God Bless.