ColoCalders.Com | Kate and Mark’s Excellent Adventures

Gallery | Trips with the Family | North Carolina Beach Vacation: May 9-17, 2009

( « Prev Album | Next Album » )

We spent a week on the Crystal Coast of North Carolina with the Calders. The ocean was beautiful, the sun was intense and the wind was blowing.

« prev
1
next »

Mark checks out the view of the Peppertree resort

We're staying in the "Penthouse", which is the top floor of the round buildings

Love the white sand beaches

North Carolina beach view

Dunes, sky, water

Afternoon on Atlantic beach

Crystal clear water

What I did on my vacation

Low, slow, waves

The Atlantic Ocean

Rocks and Sand

Mark and Bruce

Waves

Reflecting the evening sky

Sun over the water

Bruce and Mark on the beach

Bruce is contemplative

Looking down the beach road in the evening

These flowers smelled sooooo good

Mark and Kate sit on the beach at night. The distant white light is the Cape Lookout lighthouse

Early morning views of the lighthouse

Sand fences and dunes

Dunes and Clouds

Flat, calm water

View towards Cape Lookout in the morning

A pelican skims over the glassy waves

Surf

Glassy waves

Smooth surf in North Carolina

A beautiful morning on the coast

Slow moving surf

Beach Bird

Beach birds in the morning

The Atlantic Beach Pier

Sandpipper and his morning catch

Porpoise in the morning

Evening on the coast of North Carolina

Atlantic Beach Sunset

Cape Lookout Sail Map (Google Earth)

Mark and Kate instantly adapt to the nautical life

Looking out at fisher-people on Shakelford Island

Hauling up the mainsail for our big Catamaran

Mark and the boat mascott: a pocket pomeranian we called "Mr. Muggles"

Kathy and Jeff enjoy a day on a sail boat

Sailing in the Atlantic

Big sails for a big boat

The crew and other passangers for our big Cat

Looking out at Shakelford Island and the Cape Lookout National Seashore

Passengers hang out in the netting

Bruce taking a few pictures

What a way to spend the day!

Watching the waves below the netting

The cat's hauls slide through calm waters

Laying on the nets, looking up

Sails and rigging

Jeff takes a pic of a passing shrip trauler

View off the front

Little boat, big ocean

Big sea birds dot the shore of Cape Lookout point

Wild pony in North Carolina

More wild horses grazing as we sailed by

Wild horse grazing on the seashore

Bruce takes a postcard-perfect shot of the Cape Lookout Lighthouse

Mark gets his land legs back at the Cape Lookout Lighthouse

The watcher's quarters, I think this is my Mom's perfect house

Mark watches for ship wrecks

The path leading to the light house from the watcher's quaters

Looking up at the big, brick lighthouse

Views of little trees on Cape Lookout

The Cape Lookout Lighthouse (still in use!)

Old shells litter this part of the island - maybe an old trash pile?

These pretty flowers were everywhere, I don't know what they are

Sea grass in the sand

A North Carolina beach dune

Cape Lookout seashore

Lots of broken shells

View of the Cape Lookout lighthouse

A North Carolina Landscape

Passengers are tired and chilly on the sail home

Looking across the bow on a cloudy evening

A great spot on the cat - I had fun

The jib sail and clouded-over sun

The front bar and nets on the Cat

Sailing home under cloudy and breezy skies

Kate had a fantastic day on the high seas

« prev | next »

| Powered by zenPHOTO | Archive View
1328483987 seconds