Hatteras

Hatteras Island is a long, thin island off the North Carolina Outer Banks. The Village of Hatteras, which is where we are, is located way down on the tip of the island. Almost nobody except fishermen goes that far down the island to vacation, and the population ot the village is small - according to the zip code profile, there are there are 341 men and 293 women.

What this meant to us is that we pretty much had the beach to ourselves! When sitting on the beach, one could look left and right and see only a hand full of people on miles and miles of sand! This made it quite convenient for us to have our own little parties. We generally just baked in the sun, slept, read, played Jarts, flew kites, played backgammon, drank, ate, and smoked. Ed tried surf fishing every day, but never caught anything but a few little sharks. Oh, and he caught a big nasty skate once. Here is a picture of a skate. Since it was so abandoned there, 4-wheel drive vehicles were allowed on the beach, so occasionally we'd go 4-wheeling in Lloyd's jeep. Here are some pictures of us on the beach.