Sunday

April 23rd, 2017

Welcome to Beaufort...

Beaufort used to be the capital of North Carolina.... lots of houses from the 1800's

Many of them have a placard on the front with the year they were built...

Boat building center...

Elwood sporting his anchor shirt...

Many homes have balconies here...

Interesting hairy tree...

the arm pit hair...

City Hall...

Into the North Carolina Maritime Museum...

Germany had lots of U-boat sinking our Merchant ships...

Hatteras is just north of Beaufort, N.C.

A german U-123

German U-boats were kicking our butt for quite some time because our WWII focus was in the Pacific...

Some of the fish here in the Atlantic...

Full speed ahead...

Here's Joell taking a surfing lesson.... she stayed on for the whole ride...

(the ride didn't move!)

Type of fishing boats in the 50's

Of course before the German problem they had Blackbeard the Pirate...

Here's a video of the type of sailing vessel he had back then...

A petrified Rat from off of the boat...

The question.... What is this bush?

A monster Rosemary herb bush....

The next two pic's are for Scott.....

Scott,  Joell and I found this treasure map in the museum, followed it and finally found "Gold"...

and, "no" you can't have any...