Outer Banks! The ocean is beautiful, the sound is beautiful, the beach sunrise at 6am - amazing! We biked around the national park today, took hobo showers in the bath house, cooked lentils and quinoa that'll last us for days and saved a doomed jellyfish. We're kinda at a loss as to what to do in the dark, because there's SO much of it these days. We bought a deck of cards last night and played Go Fish and War in the car, but the top of the cooler doesn't make the biggest table and neither of us actually know/remember that many good card games. I wrote some postcards that I bought in Canada and we listened to This American Life and ate peanut butter, banana and honey sandwiches before opting to go for a walk on the dark, dark beach. We slept on a shaded side of a vacation house deck, which was pretty cozy. Back to today, we woke up with the sun at 6, which I hope will be a sticking habit for the rest of the trip. We ate lunch at the Canadian hole, a beach that has the most fantastic sea stuff in great density! You can squat down by the edge of the water looking at stuff and not have to move along in search of better stuff. I'm used to northwest ocean beaches and marvel at the (dead, mostly) lifeforms around here.
Also, it's HOT! Well, not hot, but 70ish, and don't think I'm complaining. It only gets better from here!
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