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Atlantic Coast Tour
April 27th - Ocean Waves RV Park Waves, NC to Joe and Kay's Campground Kill Devils Hill, NC
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We don't have to get up early this morning because the next campground is less than 40 miles away. It is going to be an easy day, so we think. Louie climbs over the sand dune next to our camp to look at the sunrise. It is so strange for us to see the sun coming up rather than setting in the ocean. Bec busies herself with making coffee.
We check our email and start out. Then it hits us. The winds have changed. What was a terrific tail wind yesterday is now a horrifying head wind today. Undaunted, we push forward. In the distance we can see yet another lighthouse, the Bodie Island Lighthouse. But, the winds are too much to entice us to take what looks like a 2 or 3 mile trek back to see it.
We cross the Oregon Inlet. Because we are from Oregon, we have to stop and take a picture. The mosquitoes have found us, and they invite Louie to lunch. Wait, he is lunch! We hop back on the bike and outrun them. Needing a new strategy against these terrifying beasts we pull into a marina for a hot dog and try out our new super-heavy-duty repellant. It works! We are bug free for the remainder of the day.
Most of the day we are on a very thin stand of land where we can see the sound on one side and the ocean on the other. Most of the houses are vacation rentals. As we pass through Nag's Head it looks like a ghost town with only a few maintenance workers doing repairs on the vacation rentals that are built high upon stilts. We stop at one road that leads a block to the Ocean. The Ocean has tried to take back some of the land because part of one driveway is on the beach. Another house has huge sandbags holding back the water. Sand has filled the driveways of some of the others. We decide that ocean front property is not such a good idea after all.
The road is wet and there are huge puddles on the sides that force us out into traffic. We have missed yet another rainstorm. It mists on us and spits a bit but that is all we get. We pull into Outer Banks Bicycle Shop, the shop that was going to help us replace our bottom brackets. They had some issues getting them so the repair is not going to happen. We will just have to clunk along until we can figure something else out.
Joe and Kay's campground is our home for two nights. Tomorrow we will find the bank to pick up the replacement Visa for Louie, find an Internet café, and visit the Wright Brother's Museum. Tonight's campground does not have laundry, but we get a grassy spot right on a waterway complete with boats and crab pots drying in the sun.
