A few weekends ago Will and I took a trip to the Outer Banks to celebrate our anniversary. We spent part of the car trip trying to name all of the counties we drove through in sequential order. Nerds? Maybe, but we thought it was fun :)
When we woke up on Saturday morning the sky was overcast and we were worried that the rain week we had in Chapel Hill the week before had followed us to the beach. After a walk on the beach and some breakfast the sky cleared up and the sun broke through. From then on it was the perfect weather – 70s and sunny. Warm, but not sweltering.
We went crabbing, walked around the Currituck lighthouse and made it to Jockey’s Ridge on our last day there.
Jockey’s Ridge is a huge sand dune – the largest in the eastern US. When you stand at the top of the dunes you can see both the ocean and the sound, one on either side. One of the most fun things to do at the state park is to jump down the dunes. They are so tall that you feel like you are flying for a few seconds when you first jump, before you land softly into the sand below. A lot of people also enjoy hang gliding from the top and landing at the very bottom. Climbing up the dunes, with sand as far as you can see, it seems like you are in a desert. It is so different from the beach you walked on a few minutes before.
That is Will wayyyyyy off in the distance.
We walked down the opposite side of the dunes and made it to the Currituck Sound. The water is shallow for a long while, and unlike the ocean there are no waves, so it was easy to wade out really far.
Until next time, OBX! We loved it!
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