Saturday April 26- Monday April 28, 2025
Saturday several others loopers joined us here at the Marina. During the day we got some work/projects done, went for another walk around the town and into a few shops, then headed out to dinner to an Irish Pub with two other looper couples. It was a good productive and fun day.
Sunday we went for a bike ride up to Fort Raleigh (8 miles round trip) at the north end of the Island where we learned about “The Lost Colony”. Neither one of us had ever heard that story before! Can’t say anyone taught me that in history class! The very first english colony was started here on Roanoke island back in the 1500’s by John White. He brought over 117 men, women and children to start a colony in the Chesapeake area. Due to weather, the captain of the ship said they all had to get off on Roanoke. John White and his daughter got off here with them as well. After a few years and a tough time of growing and being able to acquire enough food, they asked John White to go back to England and bring more supplies. He left behind his grown daughter, her husband and his granddaughter at this time. Once he was back to England, the war with Spain had surquestered all ships for the war. It wasn’t until 3 years later, he was able to return. He found no trace of any of the men, women and children (or his family) he had left behind. There have been many theories…like they starved to death, the Indians killed them, they died of disease, etc… The one that is the most plausible is that they decided to live with the Indians and become Indians. You can google that for more information, but we found it very interesting.
Sunday evening we had snacks and cocktails (docktails) with several other loopers. It was a great day!
Monday we got up and walked to a car rental place with our friends David and Candace, from their boat called “Too Nasty”, where we rented a car. We started our day by driving over to the Outer Banks (locally they use OBX for that). We stopped at a Duck Donuts where they have made to order donuts with just about any kind of topping and frosting you would want. They make them while you wait and they are hot and pretty dang good.
Then we spent a couple of hours at the Wright brother’s Memorial and Museum. That was pretty cool.
After that we drove south on the OBX to have lunch at a great restaurant (Miller’s Waterfront Restaurant) that looks over the sound (toward Roanoke Island). They had great food and have been in business since the 80’s. Then we went further south to Cape Hatteras to visit the museum call “The Graveyard of the Atlantic”, a shipwreck museum. Along the way there were plenty of interesting houses to look at as well as SO MUCH SAND and BIG sand dunes! Once done there, we stopped at Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (tallest lighthouse in the US). We knew, but of course its under restoration and has scaffolding all around it. There was a museum there as well. On our way home we stopped to get provisions since we are both taking off tomorrow and the heavy stuff is always better to get when you have a car.
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