Cape Hatteras Pictures

Our next stop was in the outer banks in North Carolina. But before we got going water struck again and we had the third issue with the camper.  This one was smaller, but it made a big mess. 

When the rain finally stopped in Delaware we prepared to leave.  I was out doing camper stuff and inside I hear Becky dressing down Sam about his ability to wash dishes there’s water everywhere on the floor of the camper. He’s like I’m just washing the dishes normally and insisted he’s not being messy.  As she inspects further there is water pouring out of the sink from underneath into the cabinets where we have the garbage and from there making it to the floor. It was also making it out of the camper I could see suds dripping from the wheel well outside. Of all things to break the sink drain, it has a huge crack in it just letting water out of his plugged sink.  What kind of crazy force that caused that to break is beyond me. It's an easy fix right, well we couldn’t get the nut off and no wrench we had was big enough so a stop on the drive to ACE for a 40-dollar wrench that I just needed for a quarter of a turn, and we got it fixed up.  This one is metal so we’re thinking the sink will break before we have issues with it.  Anyway, a dumb thing but just another break-down on our camper that is getting long in the tooth and has Becky looking at new campers way more than I’m comfortable with.  I think the paper house still has Alaska in her.  Becky absolutely does not.

Sorry for the tangent but I know some of you enjoy our misadventures as much as our adventures so wanted to make sure it was documented. 

Ok now on to the OBX in NC. Another beach and a couple more beach days.  This beach was even better than Delaware. Delaware still had it in the power department. They were way stronger but here the waves are higher, the sand softer, and the water is much warmer.  I guess I see what the big deal is about the outer banks now.  Maybe our best beach visit yet, top three at least.  You could get to the beach from the campground but is was a bit of a walk. If we would have did some more research you can drive right on the beach but you have to get a permit online and print it out we didn't do that and decided to walk it. Probably a mistake it would have made it way easier to drive in and back the car up to the waves, but there were people getting stuck and pulled out the second day we were at the beach so at least didn't have to deal with any of that. Our luck so far this trip hasn't been great and has us a little on edge. We stayed at the Oregon Inlet Campground in Cape Hatteras National Seashore it was right at the beginning of the national seashore before you get to the islands. We spent most of our time at the beach we attempted to drive down some the seashore drive one day but you couldn't see the ocean at all on the drive and every minute we went farther away was taking away from beach time, so we stopped at an access point checked out the beach there, it looked a lot like our beach and turned around.  

Here are some pictures from North Carolina. 

At the beach!

First day after pulling into our campground and setting up in a quest to see the Atlantic Ocean. 

Finally crested a dune and we could see it.

But we still had some walking to get to it. 

Did a little wading

And then of course Marcus went all in.

The seashore

Other direction

Our breakdown for this stop, crack in the drain.
And more of enemy number one in the camper... stupid water.

Ready to go to the beach in earnest the next day. Full gear to spend some serious time at the beach.
We picked up two new boogie boards that morning after a stop at Duck Donuts because of course our old ones were cheap and old.  Becky and Marcus wanted new ones, Lucas and Sam still thought the old ones would be fine. They soon found out they were not.

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Our setup at the beach it's Friday and not many people, a few fishing not many in the water.

This is our Derelicte setup, we have a broken umbrella from Alabama that we took some paracord and created guidelines to keep it open.  It was trashy and only had shade for one. But worked as a base camp.    

Everyone got in and had a blast, boogie boarding was the favorite of everyone

They were doing well catching the waves and riding them in

The family is in there somewhere, we got banged and bruised a bit.  Samus and Marcus got their faces smacked and Lucas got a pretty good scrape on his back

Me

This is on Roanoke Island, little town of Manteo.  Lucas ran out of books so we were on a quest for a bookstore and this was the closest. Didn't have what he was looking for but found a couple to try.

This is us on Pea Island when we drove down the road to check out more of Cape Hatteras. 

Pretty much looks like all the other beaches this one was deserted 

On Pea Island we stopped at a visitor center the volunteer pointed out a shipwreck that you can see out the window of the center.  That's the top of the boiler sticking out of the water. 

It was so hot out, Luke couldn't handle his hair anymore so asked for a Becky cut. It looked pretty good in front but she must have lost interest because the back was a mess and he looked like a psycho. It was so bad we got a clipper and fixed him up a couple days later in South Carolina.

Shot of our campsite, the water tank held and no leaks or anything to report

Next day final beach outing. This time in style I picked up a collapsible wagon, a sun shelter, and a third decent boogie board at the Walmart when I went into town to grab a pizza.  Yesterday was Friday and that's pizza night at the Munsch's. This is stuff we could have used many days this trip but bought it for our last day at the beach and probably won't need it again for quite a while.

New shelter, so much roomier. 

Marcus returning from the waves. All three kids wore themselves out. I think the most enjoyable for Becky and I was that they were all having a blast and playing in the waves together. 

Catching some more waves

So many waves

This was a Saturday, and it was a lot busier beach was pretty full up. 

So the beach wagon allowed us to bring a lot of stuff and walking to the beach it worked well but the soft sand between the waves and the road was a problem.  Samus and Marcus took matters into there own hands and carried it.

They were tired afterwords but it worked and best part was I didn't have to do anything. 

Our rug, it's not really a camper rug but we've had it since the beginning.  It's a felt like material that soaks up water when it rans and gets so messy with everything sticking to it.  But we've always managed and delt with it.  This stop had some terrible stickers in the grass, you couldn't walk barefoot or they would stick you and stick to your foot which I found odd. They really burrowed into the rug.  So many we decided it was the end of the road for the rug and dumped it in the dumpster on the way out.

So the original rug, the umbrella from Gulf shores, and the boogie boards we bought in California on our first trip all were left in the dumpster in North Carolina.  The boards where just foam and the waves here snapped them in half the first day out.  The new boards are way better quality and everyone wanted to use those instead of these even before they broke.