1099 May 23, 2024 Bright Sunshiny Day

My heel was hurting this morning so my first walk was the short distance to the grocery store. I returned to the RV and put an arch support on and walked again. I did 1.75 miles and then decided not to push any harder.

There is an RV here with a very cool message!

Biking is easier on my foot and so we did the 7.5 miles out and back on the paved bike trail.

This afternoon, we packed lunch and went back to the beach. Resting, relaxing, reading…it just doesn’t get any better!

Tim found a treasure.

We stayed until three and then went back for showers. We went to get dinner from a food truck.

We took dinner back onto the beach. The wind had picked up and since we didn’t want to eat sand, we ate inside the Jeep.

We stayed awhile, watching the birds in the surf. We had not seen these red knot sandpipers before.

This little guy was moving too fast to get a good picture. This is a ruddy turnstone sandpiper.

This was an old Jeep. There was a dog in the passenger seat and another in the back.

We have had a wonderful visit here in Ocracoke and we are a little sad to leave. We really like the quieter, wilder end of the Outer Banks. Tomorrow, we will take the ferry to Hatteras and spend the holiday weekend there. We are anticipating that it will be crowded and quite different than the past week, but we feel very lucky to be at the beach!