Capt. Bob's Bait & Tackle

Here's a bench to catch fishermen in a lie.

The seat was a lie detector, with inches marked off.  I'm not sure a fisherman couldn't still make a good story.

Ibises

In an ephemeral pond in front of the Bodie lighthouse, we found two Ibises.  A glossy Ibis

See Here for Glossy

And a White Ibis.

See here for the White.

lunch time

We had a surprise visitor for lunch one day.  First he brought a dead snake to our deck railing.  Then later started munching on a bird. 

The small birds didn't come to the feeder, but twittered with agitation in the trees.

He ate every bit, even the bones.

We chased him off, and hopefully he won't come back to hunt at our bird feeder.  We can hear his call all over the neighborhood.

Even though he was very big, I'm thinking he's an immature red shouldered hawk (see here) because of coloration, call and because that is the most common hawk in our area.

Happy Fourth of July!

This flag was flying in the wind at the Wright Brothers Memorial at Kill Devil Hill, NC.  The Wright Brothers chose Kill Devil Hill because of the reliable wind.  And yes, it's usually pretty windy.

Their flight was at Kill Devil Hill, but Kitty Hawk was the nearest telegraph office, and so got the credit.

A reproduction of the 1903 plane is inside the museum.

You can walk the path of the plane from the take off (the white rock on the far left) to flight 1, the first white rock, flight 2, and flight 3.  Then finally success, to the fourth rock way out on the far right.  The wooden buildings are reproductions of the living quarters and shop where Orville and Wilbur worked on the plane.

Sunset

The clouds were making shadows in the sky.  

Lighthouses

On a recent trip to the Outer Banks, we stopped at a few lighthouses. 

Bodie lighthouse is my favorite.  Not quite so crowded as Hatteras.

But Hatteras is the classic.

Each lighthouse has a different black and white pattern on it so that sailors could tell which lighthouse they were looking at.

Okracoke lighthouse is smaller but charming.

Theme day-Blue

The theme this month is "blue".  So, here's a blue shrimp trawler on a blue ocean under a blue sky.

Emerald Isle, NC.