Good day everyone – we have a group of walkers that live in the neighborhood of Cameron Woods Community – and it differs each time we walk depending on the weather – and the activities each one has.
We usually meet somewhere at 9am. to walk – so far – it has been decent – 45 to 50 degrees out – sun and hardly any wind.
The beach is wide at low tide and Sunset Beach is flatter than OIB – making it easier to walk on.
This is Sunset Beach and in the far right corner – the tall building is Ocean Isle Beach – with a channel separating the two islands.
This morning’s walk was beside a calmer ocean – lots of sea shells and tracks of birds and footprints of previous walkers.
This is but one “WHY” we moved here to the border of S.C. and N.C. – any day we want can be a beach day!
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PAPA’S WORLD – EARLY DECEMBER WALKING SUNSET BEACH!!!!!!
We went to OIB and walked – parking at the museum – walking 2nd street and then one of the side streets on the canals!
we managed to get in over two miles when we stopped at THE DRIFT COFFEE SHOP right across from where we parked.
You sit on the deck on the second story – with pleasant breezes – and just relax – taking in the park across the street!
Across the street in the beach entrance – dunes and sand – Carolina blue skies and white clouds.
We had green iced tea which they made and poured over ice –
and a Banana Bread with some sort of cream cheese – strawberries – walnuts – blueberries and drizzled with honey to share!
It was fantastic and I must say – they also have healthy breakfast items, smoothies, and coffee.
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Living where we do – ten minutes and we are here – walking the beach or the streets – enjoying the park which they are now constructing a basketball court – pickleball court and a covered picnic shelter to go along with the stage – splash park – playground – restrooms and open-air concerts in the Summer from May to September!
Green iced tea – banana bread – fruit nuts and honey – sitting outside – PRICELESS!
OCEAN ISLE BEACH DRIFT COFFEE SHOP – ON 2nd STREET!
We are living our dream – living on the N.C -S.C. border – close to so many really fine golf courses!
Our close friends live 35 minutes away and we get together often – golf and dinner.
We are so close to a couple beaches – 15 minutes and we are on the sand at either one.
We get to watch the change over every weekend – much as we did in our younger years when we vacationed at the beach – now we live it every day.
The footprints disappear only to be made over and over again each day.
No more snow and ice – yes it does get cold – but by midday, it is bearable to be out and about.
Living life one day at a time!
We have now watched our oldest granddaughter graduate from college – sad that soccer has ended with her – but happy that it continues with her sister in her junior year at college.
We have volunteered at the memory care unit and now the SEA TURTLE PROTECTION program for N.C.
Ocean Isle Beach – walking the beach and sitting at nesting sites.
WE ARE LOVING LIFE IN OUR NEAR TO BE MID SEVENTY!
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The sun sets for this day – one of many – many we have enjoyed in our new life in retirement!
Disclaimer: The work for protected Sea Turtles is authorized by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission – PERMIT: ST200232
The Sea Turtles Protection on Ocean Isle Beach is a volunteer organization.
Many – many volunteers dedicated to the Sea Turtles hatching and as many as possible reaching the waters of the Ocean.
Also – to protect TURTLE NESTS along the beach from predators and educate the public on the survival of the Sea Turtles who come to the beach to lay their eggs.
Nesting is usually done overnight – leaving huge TURTLE CRAWL TRACTS on the beach – digging a hole and laying the eggs.
The SEA TURTLE ten covers the nest, slowly crawls back to the ocean – the mother never sees the little turtles – and can lay eggs several more times.
The beach is patrolled by an ATV every morning before 5:30 am. and Beach walkers at 6am.
Nests are called in and a response team comes and verify the nest and sets up protection and takes GPS coordinates.
Female Sea Turtles only start producing eggs at the age of 25 years old –
Through DNA testing of eggs – they can be tracked all up and down the coast of N.C. – S.C. – Ga. –
and the Northern part of Florida.
They have the DNA of a daughter Turtle – its mother and its grandmother which would be at least 75 years old!
The Sea Turtles return to lay eggs all up and down the coast and sometimes come back to the same beach.
Thanks for reading and here are some pictures of the preparation to protect the nests.
Here the nest has been prepped for protection – the mesh rolled back to bury a microphone to listen to the babies moving around in the nest.
The sounds they make are then compared to several recorded sounds on an app on the leader’s phone.
You then compare the sounds to the app to try and pinpoint how many days are left before they hatch.
The team comes each night at 7PM. and sits for four hours – they will do this each night until the nest hatches.
Past data collected shows that the nest will hatch within this time frame but it can occur outside of this,
these are dedicated volunteers – it could stretch into weeks of watching and waiting!
Installing the microphone by burying it next to the nest at the same depth – it records people 50 to 75 feet away talking and moving about.
This is put down to keep foxes out of the nest – when they hatch this will be moved out of the way.
Team members listening to the sounds from the nest Thanks for reading PAPA’S WORLD –
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PAPA’S WORLD – SEA TURTLE NEST PROTECTION – ON OCEAN ISLE BEACH
Our SENIOR years are here – we are close to the middle 70s. Yet we are still active – always exploring!
Here we are on the marshes of the ICW – near OIB N.C.
We moved here for the weather ( we both hate snow-ice and cold) close to beaches and golf
and our dear friends are only 40 minutes away!
Have a sense of humor – be kind and share a smile!
When family visits – the sunsets but rises to begin a new day with them!
One of our walks on the beach brings us a Turtle Nest – so we became involved – walking early mornings on Turtle Beach Patrol – looking for signs of turtles – protected by the state of N.C.
Disclaimer: The work for protected SEA TURTLES is authorized by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission – PERMIT ST020232
We now walk and nest sits – all volunteers – dedicated people – to help Sea Turtles survive.
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PAPA’S WORLD – LIVING LIFE IN OUR SENIOR YEARS! THANKS FOR READING AND HGD!
Not us! We explore – we look for things to do and things to see!
Our view from our chairs at OIB park – just a short block from the beach – every Friday night during the Summer season – a free concert for the public – this one featured BLACKWATER –
A local ( Sunset Beach) eight-member band playing classic rock and BEACH MUSIC!
The concert starts at 6:30 pm. but people start putting their chairs down long before that – here we are at 5:30 pm. it is already more than half full with empty chairs.
We managed to squeeze in this spot and saved two more spaces for our neighbors Diane and Steve.
Papa – Steve – Diane and Sherry – and behind us is the crowd – and just as significant to the right and left of us!
We can attend an open-air concert like this almost every night of the work week as most towns around us have them on different nights.
Diane and Steve danced the night away to classical rock music. Carolina Beach Music is also performed.
On Wednesday night, open-air music is at Sunset Beach Park, where we often go.
At the end – we just sit and talk letting the crowd disperse and usually only a few dozen people are left sitting!
The nights are warm and you can watch the setting sun in the western sky.
Or take a walk to the beach and sit and talk.
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SHERRY – OPEN-AIR CONCERT NEAR THE BEACH IN OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C.
Our daughter – Debby and husband Mike – Sherry – papa – Ella – Maddy and Sarah – from NVA!
They came and spent nearly a week with us in Cameron Woods Community- N.C.
We had planned this for a couple months – and as always – tears when they left!
Mike – Steve – Sherry and Diane – both neighbors and friends – came along with us on the ICW!
Sherry had attended a fundraiser for the food pantry put on by our church.
She purchased $20.00 in tickets and her name was drawn twice –
once for breakfast at a dinner and the second time as the winner of a 9-hour day on the ICW
with a PONTOON BOAT!
Mike – Steve and myself piloted us down and back up the ICW stopping at the new place to eat on the ICW-
THE BLUE DRUM! We had a great lunch and fun time boating.
On the way back – we stopped on the back side of Bird Island – where boats pull up to the beach and you hang out on the beach!
Papa – Mike and Steve stand on the ICW beach and watch a very large boat that had just come up the channel from the ocean and passed where we had beached the pontoon boat!
Maddy looked out over the cove on the backside of OIB at OIB FISH COMPANY where stopped for drinks and appetizers.
We spent two days on the beach – one day on the boat and two days at the pool.
We took them on our Turtle Patrol walk at sunrise on the East end of OIB.
Papa and Sherry at our last beach day with family. Thanks for reading PAPA’S WORLD-
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PAPA’S WORLD – FROM LAKE HOLIDAY TO CAMERON WOODS COMMUNITY – FAMILY VACATION.
Our wedding day – June 25th. 1982 – starting out together after dating for 1 1/2 years!
It seems like only yesterday yet it is over 41 years ago and longer since we first started dating.
Both divorced – both had two children – her two daughters – my two sons –
We planned vacations on a budget – packing food to stop and have lunch on our way to a destination.
We had an old 12-passenger van – but fun trip.
We lived in the country – our driveway was 1/10 of a mile long – ice in winter –
It took me days to push and mow the lawn.
The early years – Sherry and her sisters. We were close to her family – often spending weekends with her parents!
Camping – tents and fifth-wheel and tag-along camper.
Our dream back then was warm weather – beach – surf and sand – vacations – wanting to stay!
We explored our states and country – sometimes by ourselves – mostly with kids –
providing what we could – money was tight.
But – we were happy – and we both worked for AOTC and DAL-TILE.
Along the way was National Gypsum, Private, Armstrong, and Mohawk.
The early years – Sherry and her sisters. In the mountains of the Kinzua Valley – Mount Jewett – Pa.
Our family was aging – the kids were gone to college and work.
We were thinking of transferring to within the company.
Several openings came up – but not what we wanted.
Then in 1999 – we applied for transfers and moved to NVA – still with Dal-Tile –
along the way we remained close to our friends for many years – one couple left for Wilmington, N.C. a few years before we went to NVA, and later the other couple transferred to Va.Beach.
We stayed in touch and in June of this year they all came to our new home to play golf –
FRIENDS FOREVER!
Our early years have now transformed into our senior years – now retired – and our dream came true!
We found our beach – sand – surf and warm weather – now our families come to visit.
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PAPA’S WORLD – livinglifedoingitmyway.blog OUR EARLY YEARS 6-25-82!
LIVING OUR DREAM TO THE PLUS ONE DAY AT A TIME – 2023 – OUR SENIOR YEARS BEGIN!
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