Captain’s Blog
Outer Banks
Early this morning I walked to the office to check on the possibility of staying another night at Ocean Waves. Not a chance, they are filled for the next month with the snowbirds coming for one and two month stays. The price for a one-month stay with utilities is $496.00 per month or a mere $16.00 a night. What a great deal and right on the ocean.
Since we had to move we had to decide if we would go to the $74.00 per night KOA with our KOA discount or the RV Resort next door for $ 54.00 per night. Instead we decided to go to the Oregon Inlet NP Campground 17 miles north. We have stayed there in the past and enjoyed it despite the lack of utilities. But, for $10.00 a night one cannot complain.
Once at the office the “old” Ranger asked me if I had an “old peoples” pass that qualifies for the $10.00 rate. UGH , I guess I now look “old” enough to qualify. I pulled out my pass but wanted to whack him for asking.
We secured what we thought was a great site against the dunes. Once we were set up we discovered that the site we chose was overrun by little plants that are loaded with sticky birds – painful sticky-birds that are actually some type of small cactus.
Poor Jewel was loaded with them and could not walk. Ron and I spent the next 20 minutes picking them off of her. She was so traumatized she hid under the table. We had thought about moving but after some consideration decided to stay put and work around the prickly beasts.
Later we walked over the dunes (carrying Jewel over the grassy areas) to the ocean. It was a beautiful evening so we walked the beach for about 90 minutes. Good exercise and fresh air for all of us. Back at the MH we had a nice meal and relaxing evening enjoying the good weather.
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