North Carolina

After one more day at Busch Gardens and then an afternoon at Jamestown and Williamsburg we figured it was time to keep going south. Here we are in North Carolina, Belhaven to be exact but it probably isn't on any of your maps. I feel like we are in and area of perpetual swamp. There are dark swampy areas everywhere split up by cotton and soybean fields. All the houses are built on bricks or pilings about 2 feet high.....think it floods much here? The main street by the library I am typing in was flooded just a month ago when a tropical storm came through. Hurricanes like N. Carolina as much as Florida. There are Hurricane Evacuation Route signs and kids get Hurricane Days off school. The campsite we are at is right next to one of those dark swampy areas. The mosquitos are huge here.....size of the ones in Alaska. It is good fishing though. Jenna has already gotten a line wet but no luck so far because we haven't bought any crickets.

Today we went for some good Southern cooking. We had collards, hushpuppies, cornbread sticks, BBQ and fried chicken. We got so much food that we have enough for dinner tonight too. After lunch we went fossil hunting in the slagg left from the phosphate mine. We found petrified sharks teeth and thousands of little shells. Some of the shark teeth the mine finds are as big is 6 inches high.....the company keeps those.

We will spend about a week exploring the swamps and the outer banks by Nags Head, also the town of Bath home of Blackbeard the pirate. We have caught up with the Vanwoerdens so we will hang out a bit with them as well.