Day 4 (November 5th)

Thursday’s first event was visiting the Chicamacomico Rescue Station. It was a part restored, part preserved building which housed an early form of the US Coast Guard. Active through the roughly 19th and early 20th centuries (Don’t take my word for it, this is old memory.) operations were mainly shooting out lifelines, rescue breeches buoys (Essentially lifejackets on a zipline) and the like. The crew of the infamous wreck of the Mirlo were saved by this lifesaving station in the August of 1918.or something like that).

Another interesting part of the station was a completely preserved and fully intact 20th century family home. This was fun to walk through, even though I accidentally tripped on a rocking chair and nearly broke it.

When we left the station, we put a pin on Chapel Hill on a road map marking where the previous visitors were from (Many of them were from Germany.)

The other thing we did on Thursday was a sunset kayak tour. We signed up for a guided group tour through the Pamlico Sound side of the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. We kayaked under an old 1920’s wood bridge that was actively collapsing, around several marsh islands where snails were abundant, and finally made it into a large opening just in time for sunset.

Sitting agawk and toasting our retinas, we viewed the sunset sink in to the un-obscured horizon and form a snow globe as it reflected across the surface. To me, it looked a lot like a Comfort Inn logo!