Yesterday I was introduced to the sport of shark tooth finding. Early in the day the flies disappeared, and the beach was perfect for me. (cool and cloudy) I went down and tried my hand at finding some shark’s teeth in the surf. It is pretty much fun and I caught on, inventing my own method that involved a child’s sand strainer and an adult beverage. Vickie soon joined me and we passed some idealic hours with just the surf, beach, and breeze. This time of the year when it isn’t burning hot but the water is still warm is so great.
After several hours of shark’s teeth hunting, I remembered that I wanted to go and find where the shrimp boats dock that we see every day in front of our villa. Everyone was interested so we packed up and headed out. Vickie had gotten some info from a long time resident about a special seafood place right on the water so we headed in that general direction. Rt. 172 when it leaves Sneads Ferry says Military Traffic only. That really isn’t true but it does terminate at the gate to Camp Lejune. But along the way the local’s directions told us to turn at the old Exxon. Well we turned at a new Exxon cause that’s where all the signs were pointing to water front restaurants and stuff. We followed the road back in the direction of the water, and came upon several waterfront restaurants, and venturing further we found the homeport of the shrimp boats. At one boat dock the deck hands had cables stretched out all over the parking lot so we turned around to avoid running over their cables.
We saw some more shrimp boats over the trees so we rode over there. Vickie got out and went over to talk to the fishermen. She came back carrying this huge shrimp with feelers about 6 inches long. (he was sort of a big smiling shrimp) She said they were for sale for $6.00 per lb. so we decided to get some. The man said they had been caught just in front of Topsail Island, so these were the shrimp boats we watched out our window in the morning. We got a big bag and Vickie’s Mom got the guy to de-head them for us. We scoped out the other fishing/restaurants in the area, and at one we found this very pretty blonde girl in short red Abercrombie shorts and white fishing boots. We took her picture along with very photogenic shrimp boats and a nice boy who posed for Vickie while he was cleaning up his boat.
Turned out to be a great trip and we headed home---ultra fresh crustaceans in hand. We stopped by the Food Loin and picked up the fixings for some turf to go with our surf along with some good horseradish for building seafood sauce. After arriving home, we put the turf in one Ziploc bag with appropriate seasoning, and the surf in another Ziploc bag with a citrus-parsley-garlic salt marinade we invented in Florida earlier this year. Vickie headed off to scope out the grill situation. This was going to be a new experience for her cause we were using charcoal instead of gas. (here Jerry laughs hysterically) But she rose to the occasion, and we had a great meal of local food in beautiful surroundings. As we are wont to do, after dinner it was books, cards, puzzles etc. till time to retire.
Today I got out my digital pocket recorder, and started making some notes about the curiosities of this “villa”. I hope to combine my observations into a Trip Advisor review and perhaps some interesting notes.
More Later,
Wes
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