Trip to Nags Head

We flew to Manteo to meet up with Sharon and Buddy for a long weekend! 

They picked us up at the Dare County Airport - our big beach house was one row from the beach in Nags Head.

We went for a drive  stopped at Kill Devil Hills for a bit of walking up Jockey's Ridge!  We were surprised that there was standing water - must have been left over from Hurricane Matthew.

 Saw some folks taking hang-gliding lessons.  Looks like fun but a lot of work, hiking back up the hill to do it again!

Nice walk thru some shallow ponds and up the big dunes!

Beautiful views - looking towards the ocean.  Doesn't look very high does it?  Hard to get the perspective with my little camera.

And looking the other way toward the sound.

Fun to watch a family - the kids had hiked up the dune, faithfully carrying their discs/boogie boards....the all tried to slide down the hill - but got nowhere!  It just wasn't steep enough - or their discs weren't slick enough, I don't know.

And they did what any young kid would do - they tossed the discs aside and rolled all the way down the dune!  They looked like they were having a blast....I got dizzy looking at them!

One night, we played cards....good fun!  (Pretzels were our betting "chips")!

We went to the annual BrewTag "Flying Keg Contest".  For a $25 entry fee, any group could build an "aircraft" that would propel itself and a "pony" keg.  Longest flying craft wins.....each craft was individually lifted onto the scaffold.  The builders were at the top, each tethered to the structure, obeying good OSHA rules!

And each aircraft was pushed/thrown off the top.  This one did pretty good!  It flew about 55 feet and was winning for a while.

Several didn't do so well....note the keg cylinder in the center of the craft.

 This one was a bit sad...they tossed it, but got NO lift..so it just tumbled.

And ended up bent at the bottom - note that it lost it's keg....

 And here is the actual winner - a simple design - it flew 67 feet!  Good, clean fun!

 Off to the beach....a front had come thru and the sea was a bit angry.

We walked out on Jeannette's Pier to see if they were catching anything....

They weren't catching much fish...but this fellow caught a brown pelican!!

They gently hauled the bird out - calmed him/her.  Untangled the line from it's neck!

And gently tossed it back to the sea.

Good as new, a bit shocked!!

Sharon and Jeannine had gone to a local yarn shop.  Sharon brought back 6 skeins of yarn - beautiful stuff!  She coerced us to help her roll it into balls.  I guess we're just nice that way :-)

Here's the beautiful result.  I won't detail the messy knots that we struggled with at times!!

Here is what she is making - a beautiful scarf!

And before you knew it, time to pack up and fly home!!