A couple years ago, Ryan's parents bought a condo in Indian Beach, a small beach town nestled in between Emerald Isle and Atlantic Beach. The large porch looks right over the sound, which always strikes a serenity chord with me. You can just sit on the porch or the large dock down below, wine in hand, with a cool breeze and a beautiful sunset. Heaven. During the day, you can fish or use the shrimp nets or crab cages to collect your next meal, or just sit and relax with your legs hanging off the dock.
Aiden spent the first part of the week here with his Nana and Papa, and then Ryan and I joined them for the latter half of the week through the weekend. They had already done lots of swimming, fishing, and kayaking, so it was our turn to join in the fun. We caught eleven crabs the first day (!), and were able to keep nine of them for size purposes; Ryan steamed them and we had a delicious, succulent lunch!
Besides going to the ocean, spending time at the pool, and fishing/crabbing off the dock, we took a 20-minute drive to Beaufort, NC to visit the NC Maritime Museum, which now has a special exhibit: Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge. It's so neat to see these old artifacts and trinkets that were handled by someone so well-known in our country's history. Seeing it in the flesh also brings this fable-like story to life; this really happened and these people really existed. What a world that must have been.
We finished the afternoon with some ice cream and a stroll through the Old Burying Ground, a historical burial site of individuals spanning centuries of North Carolina history. As you walk along the paths lined by gnarly trees and some hardly recognizable graves, you can peruse all the various tombstones, many with fascinating stories behind them. One tombstone of an English sailor is engraved as so:
The form that fills this silent grave,
once tossed on ocean's rolling wave,
but in a port securely fast
he's dropped his anchor here at last.
Following our trip into Beaufort, we had a fabulous dinner out on the deck at The Ruddy Duck Tavern in Morehead City. Burgers, pasta, fish tacos... you name it! Looking right over the water with the boats happily passing by just added to the lovely and calming atmosphere.
Anyways, it was another great trip to the North Carolina beach with Ryan's family. We always look forward to genuinely relaxing while we're there, and this trip was no exception.
The only hard part about taking off to the beach for the weekend was Moose's failed attempts to try and come with us.
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