Kitty Hawk Maritime Woods Reserve

For the final calendar month or hence we’ve been completely off our normal routine.  We went camping ground inwards the Shenandoah Mountains, spent weeks working on the spider web log piece nosotros transitioned to WordPress, too and hence went out of town for a calendar week to the Outer Banks inwards North Carolina.  I’m actually looking forwards to settling inwards for the adjacent half-dozen weeks trying some novel recipes too blogging on my regular schedule.  But … earlier nosotros instruct dorsum to delicious recipes, I desire to part some opor-garai photos from our OBX adventure.

If you’ve followed SRFD for a piece yous in all likelihood know nosotros honey to kayak.  We took our boats on opor-garai too spent a brace of days paddling roughly amongst my husband’s sister-in-law Rita.  We kayaked inwards the Currituck Sound too had a wonderful twenty-four threescore minutes menstruum on this canal inwards The Preserve at Kitty Hawk Woods.  The canal runs 8.5 miles through to a greater extent than than 1,800 acres of lush trees, wildlife, birds too fish.  It was a relaxing, fascinating twenty-four threescore minutes menstruum amongst perfect conditions too dandy company.

 

You may recollect my sister-in-law Rita plant at the Nashville Zoo too is our resident bird, põrnikas too fauna expert.  We honey traveling too vacationing amongst her too can’t hold off to instruct i time to a greater extent than soon!

 

We felt lucky to catch the surface area inwards early on autumn because I am quite certain nosotros dodged some pesky blood sucking mosquitoes too Sun bathing snakes.  I sympathise the surface area is also domicile to those enormous Nutria (giant swimming rats) – oh yuck!

 

 My hubby fished a footling merely exclusively caught a small-scale crab.

 

The surface area seems to endure belongings on to many secrets too untold stories.

 

 

 

We paddled upwardly to an abandoned covered bridge.  Apparently it was utilization of a evolution that never got off the ground.

 

 

 

I was fascinated amongst the drift forest too fallen trees.  They are creepy too beautiful at the same time.

 

 

 Along the canal nosotros came across several docks too houses.

 

 We headed dorsum to the southward out of the woods too into the marsh.

Mother nature is real artistic.

 

 

 Kitty Hawk Bay – this way!

 

 I paddled out to meet what was written on this sign – “Seasonal Bull Shark Nursery Area – May – Oct.”  Oh my – let’s instruct back!

 We didn’t hang roughly at that topographic point real long – ha ha!

 

 

This giant (Banana) spider was prissy plenty to concur however piece I took out the macro lens too got a closed up.  I didn’t involve to instruct real closed equally she was to a greater extent than than two inches long.  Eeewwwww – creepy too fascinating.

I promise yous enjoyed our trip downward the canal too Kitty Hawk Bay.  I convey a few to a greater extent than photos of the beach too volition instruct those upwardly afterwards this week.  Did yous know at that topographic point are most 150 wild horses that alive on the island?  Thanks hence much for stopping by.

Tricia

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