Got to love a good storm
October 1, 2010
Avalon Pier today
The pier is in need of a new flag! But Damn doesn’t the ocean look great!!!!!!
Sniff, sniff, sniff…maybe I will catch another one.
tracks found on Pea Island OBXNC
Now you see so many different tracks here in the sand; so many birds I will not bore you to list, fox, crabs, deer, two legged human sorts, beach patrol, pick-trucks further south or further up north. The sand is amazing to investigate!!
But there is this one track that has me a bit baffled, has me singing, and had me watching a bit closer when I am hiking. It could be a number of creatures, but whatever it is it is freaking big and definitely not going to be all that friendly to me if I get to close. It would have been so sweet to have captured and image of what ever made these tracks, but what I have seen on the web and where these tracks came from it looks to be possibly a smaller alligator. I very well could be mistaken, but how cool are these tracks!!!
close up of track fround Pea Island OBX NC
They were found on the north end of Pea Island, just after you cross the Bonner Bridge. There is an old Lifesaving Station in the area and many large pothole type ponds there and these great tracks came right out of one of these holes and strolled right up the dune!!!
So whatever it was that made these tacks it is very sweet that is picked Pea Island to make its home!!!!
Rise and Shine Campers, it’s Groundhog’s Day!
February 2, 2010
Phil
My favorite day! Groundhog Day. The mid-point of winter and a very special time in western Pennsylvania when a large rodent named Punxstawney Phil comes out at the crack of dawn and predicts the winter for the next six weeks. Let’s see…do we feel lucky?
Phil at Gobblers Knob news image
Hear Ye Hear Ye Hear Ye
On Gobbler’s Knob on this glorious Groundhog Day, February 2nd, 2010, Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of all Prognosticators awoke to the call of President Bill Deeley and greeted his handlers, John Griffiths and Ben Hughes.
After casting a joyful eye towards thousands of his faithful followers, Phil proclaimed, “If you want to know next, you must read my text. As the sky shines bright above me, my shadow I see beside me. So six more weeks of winter it will be.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRiVhgdU-E8
never ending wake up
If you ever want to catch a cool flick, check out Groundhog Day. You wont regret it!!! Plus you get to see Phil!!!
Here are a few U-tube links to the coolest movie!!! Happy Groundhog Day!
“NEWS FLASH” Serendipity has left the beach!!!
January 18, 2010
To quote Cartman “Screw you guys I’m going home”
just leaving the beach entering highway 12
Good bye Mirlo beach!!!!
All that once was Serendipity's home for over 20 years
Serendipidy has left the beach
when more infomation becomes available, I will add more!!!!!
Serendipity Web Cam images MOVE Day 1
January 16, 2010
Morning caused set back due to the surf undermining the surf side cribbing.
morning of the 15, tides up!
Even with the morning delays, they were able to move her off the edge of the ocean and to edge of Highay 12. Darkness fell upon them to quickly to move them down the road. Web cam images of her moving on the beach.
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- early morning tide
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- morning of the 15, tides up!
you can see the move, it was a slow progress! The last two images were from this morning. Weather will be coming in Sunday, will be watching the web cam inbetween runs tomorrow while on duty to keep track of her.
I did find a few videos on u-tube on the move. surforsound has quite a few videos of the prep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsMnrGNtToU
Serendipity’s on the move
January 14, 2010
sunrise serendipity web cam
The Outer Banks of North Carolina is filled with many wonders difficult to experience in just one or two visits. It takes lifetimes to experience all that is offered by the mystery and natural wonders of the outer Banks. I have not had the pleasure of that experience. Only a handful of visits and a lifetime of following vicariously through others eyes, have I had only a drop of the beauty.
My eyes are watching as the drama has finally come to an endpoint for the first house, on the ocean side of highway 12 just as you leave Pea Island National Wildlife refuge and enter the town of Rodanthe. Serendipity. She is not historic, nor of any cultural significance, or natural happening. Just a beach house built in 1988 at the end of Rodanthe. Not any house do I recall has cause such a following or a controversy in the outer banks that I can remember in my short 50 years of life here on earth.
Mirlo Beach is disappearing at an alarming rate of upwards of 16 feet a year and you add the additional nor ‘eastern and hurricane to and to the degradation of the beaches even more is lost. These houses were not built in the ocean where they are basically now; mother nature took care of that address change over the years. With no beach replenishment policy like they have in Virginia, Mother Nature is taking the beaches and the beach houses with it in an alarming rate.
Serendipity is just a beach house, nothing more. But what she became was a symbol of strength and endurance, of sorrow and hope. Storm after storm engulfed more and more beach. The ocean crashed upon her pillars, but she stood fast. Neglected, battered, alone she continued to maintain her presence when others thought she should be no more. A nuisance…a hazard…but if one was to throw stones; the ocean is a nuisance…a hazard if you must state the obvious. If it wasn’t over washing north of Rodanthe or South by Buxton or Frisco or Ocracoke or Up at Kitty Hawk, Highway 12 would stay open and not become damage. If there was beach replenishment we might be able to slow the process by which Mother Nature creates. You can’t stop it but maybe slow it a little. But this is just useless ranting and does not change the way things are. We just have to accept it and move on…and she is!
Tomorrow is Friday January 15, 2010, It will be the first day they try to move Serendipity down highway 12 to her new location between 0900 and 1400, for a chance at a new life, at least for a little while!
Here are a few web cam shots of the activity.
Serendipity 1 14, 2010 activity
Serendipity 1 14 2010 Cribbing
http://www.islandfreepress.org/2010Archives/01.13.2010-SerendipityMayBeOnTheMoveOnFriday.html
NEWS FLASH from Duck
September 23, 2009
Holy Crap Batman, that's one big Shark!
Different kind of fish tale This 20-foot basking shark recently washed ashore in Duck. This species is next to the largest of all sharks – only the whale shark is larger. It is considered harmless and is a filter feeder.
NEWS FLASH: Shark Bite Killed Man On Outer Banks
September 19, 2009
JAWS is waiting for us!!!!
Jaws is waiting for us to get there!!!!!
A shark bite killed a Pittsburgh man who disappeared after going swimming on the Outer Banks this past weekend.
The body of Richard Snead was found Thursday when it washed up on the beach in Kill Devil Hills.
The State Medical Examiner’s Office in Greenville says the 60-year-old man died from injuries from a shark bite.
Currituck County authorities say this is the first recorded case of a shark bite in their county since 2000.
Authorities say Snead was swimming near mile post 4.5 in Corolla sometime after 9:00 p.m. on September 12th and was reported missing right after midnight.
The last fatal confirmed fatal shark attack off the North Carolina coast was in September 2001.
It happened in Avon, near Cape Hatteras. A 27-year-old man was critically injured and died from blood loss. His girlfriend was also attacked. She lost her foot.
Both were Russian, living in Virginia, on vacation on the Outer Banks. The two were attacked while swimming near a sandbar around 6 p.m.
It was never confirmed what kind of shark attacked the two, but some reports suggested it was a bull shark.
Oh course there is a comment section and I had to include this !!!
“Whoa! I love surfing when I know there are sharks in the area. Love the challenge”
News Flash from Rodanthe
September 16, 2009
Serendipity House
News from the local Outer Banks Rag …
Row, row, row your house… Serendipity, the house made famous by its use in the movie, Nights in Rodanthe, starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane, recently went from ocean-front to ocean-in as waves broke under the structure.
I just hope we get down there while it is still standing!!! In just the last few months the beach that was there is now gone. I know she was built like no other on the Outer Banks, but still, when her time comes it will be a sad moment for such a beautiful home.
