The Pan and Jerm Show

Pan and Jerm Do the Outer Banks

Pan took a week off for vacation, and we went with Mark and Patti to the Outer Banks. Nags Head, specifically; it was awesome. We actually went a couple weeks ago, but have been too busy with work to post about it.




This was the beach at low tide at night. It was a great time for finding a bunch of nice intact shells. Pan actually found her conch the next morning at low tide with a few other huge shells.





We stayed here. It was a nice place that served a good breakfast and had a wine and cheese hour. It was cool and very reminiscent of our trip to Vermont at the end of August.


This was our room. You can't really see all of it because of the nooks and crannies, but it was very old-style.


Turtles, I guess. These were at the NC Aquarium on the island of Manteo. It was a pretty small aquarium, but what they did have, was pretty cool. Lots of tiger sharks, stingrays, and what not.



I don't know how to rotate a pic on Blogger, so you'll have to turn your head sideways. This was the Bodie Island Lighthouse. It's one of 3 major lighthouses on the Outer Banks, with the Hatteras Lighthouse being the tallest. I didn't really expect to be blown away by a lighthouse, but it was actually pretty neat.


Us, enjoying the few days we spent there. It was a great time to go to Nags Head, with the warmer-weather crowds non-existent at the time. We also took the opportunity while we were there to eat way too much seafood, including rockfish, gulffish (with a gouda/bacon cream sauce and marinated tomato), shrimp (so fresh, so clean), scallops, lobster, a lot of crab, and probably a bunch of stuff that I'm not remembering. We did not buy/eat the alligator sausage that was available for purchase, though. Pan did buy plenty of "souvenir yarn" at a cool place in Manteo.

On the way back, we went through Chapel Hill and spent way too much money at Trader Joe's and spent some time in the hugely(60,000 square feet) awesome kitchen store that has everything (even Bacon Salt!), Southern Season. It was ridiculous and a little overwhelming. But mostly awesome.

Overall, it was a great time and convinced us to come to the Outer Banks at least once a year, maybe as soon as next summer on Ocracoke Island. Thanks, Mark and Patti!

Labels: beach, food, lighthouse, ocean, Outer Banks, vacation

posted by Jeremy @ 12:04 PM