Ocracoke Island, N.C.This is the beach at our campsite. My brother-in-law, my husband and me on the beach.
Last week, My husband and I drove down to North Carolina to visit his brother, who is currently stationed on Fort Bragg. He took some leave time off to take us to the seashore and spend a few days on the outer banks of North Carolina. The Outer Banks are so beautiful. A beach lovers paradise! Driving down the one stretch of road on the islands, there is ocean and sand dunes on either side of you. It makes you feel like you're at the edge of the world!
We spent most of our time on Ocracoke Island, where we camped right next to the beach! Ocracoke is the southern most island of the
Cape Hatteras area. Cape Hatteras consists of three islands of the Outer Banks - Bodie, Hatteras, and Ocracoke. There is one stretch of road the connects the islands except for Ocracoke, which you take a 40 minute ferry to get to, but even the ferry is fun to ride! Once on the island, we headed for the camp site. We set up our tents right on the other side of the sand dunes. If you ever camp here, be sure to have bug spray and mosquito netting with you! Ugh! The mosquitoes are pretty vicious! But other than that, I really enjoyed the beach camping. I would do it again in a heart beat. In fact, I can't wait to do it again!
It was nice being a beach bum for a few days. No make-up. No hair dyer. Just salt water and ocean breeze to put a wave in my hair. The evenings on this island were amazing. The sunsets were so gorgeous. I wish I had gotten some pictures. When the sun was all the way down and we were back at our camp, we would walk over the dunes and hang out on the beach, look up at the stars and just watch the waves roll in under the moonlight. Pretty incredible!
There's so much that we didn't even get to. Ocracoke's little harbor village is so cute and charming. I wish I could have done some shopping, but I was with a bunch of boys! lol! Oh, well...Next time I will have to do a girls trip and hit the shops and bead stores that are down there! :) Even though I didn't get to shop, I did bring home some beach treasures! Take a look below at these seashell pieces I picked up off the beach. Their edges have been rounded and smoothed from the ocean tides like sea glass. Aren't these cool! We don't have shells like this in New England. I've never seen shell pieces like this before. I think they would make great pendants and charms for jewelry. Now, I only wish I had spent even more time looking for these. Can't wait to try making something with them.
Ocean-tumbled seashell pieces
