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Turtle
When I was a kid growing up in Va Beach I hunted and kept as pets the Eastern Box Turtle indigenous to those parts. I didn’t have anything to read about them, so I learned all of their habits, mating, food sources, hibernation techniques etc by just observing over about 3 years. Sometimes …
Winner
This guy was the winner. First place. The last man standing. It doesn’t get any more Americana than Moville, Iowa at a demolition derby. Woodbury County Fair. Hot dogs, apple pie , fried chicken, chocolate cake, potato salad and the smells of car exhaust and cow manure all blend in just fine. My parents …
The old Pier
These old wooden piers get a bit shaky underfoot during a big swell. Safe? Well all of the piers down here in the outer banks have been totally wiped out by storms at one time or another and like everything else here get rebuilt. When it’s breaking out beyond the pier most normal people …
Flashback 3
Part of my outer banks summer flashback series. Surfer at Avalon pier break does a cutback into the wave and a serious ” lip slash”.
Flashback on the coldest day
Summer flashback on the coldest day of winter. Avalon pier break surfer checks out the waves before paddling out. In the outer banks a strong current often carries surfers perhaps several hundred yards from where they paddled out, so they walk back to their starting point. It’s not an easy life.
Flashback
It’s freezing cold in the outer banks right now. So I am posting a summertime flashback of what now seems a hazy memory. Summer is right around the corner, yes?
Storm
Outer Banks gale force winds. Always inspiring. Sometimes we complain of foul weather here, longing for a hot summer day and a cold beer under the umbrella. Yet we secretly love a raging foamy sea and the wind and the rain whipping us forcing us to run back inside. Truth is when we reminisce …