Spring Break Fun at Blackbeard Island!

To end our week of Spring break fun, we spent the Weekend at Tom and YaYa's along with the whole Wailes family.  We planned a Saturday boat ride over to Blackbeard Island.  Blackbeard Island is only accessible by boat and is names Blackbeard after one of the most notorious pirates that captained the waters off the eastern seaboard in the late 1800s.  We of course learned this later through a little research since we considered this a field trip for Aubrey's school year!  

We packed some sandwiches, treats, and drinks and headed off around lunch time. 

The captain and his first mate!

We made it!  

The island was beautiful and mostly deserted except for one or two boats off the coast in the distance.

We found our own shipwrecked boat!  

Needless to say, there was no treasure to be found!

We found a lot of awesome shells, coral and crabs.

We decided to take off on a little exploring adventure and we found all this beautiful drift wood.

By late afternoon, the dolphins were coming around and gave us a little show.

 Just a few more cute pics that I took of my littlest babe!

What I didn't mention at the beginning of this post was that shortly after we got there, we realized the tide was going out.  We didn't pull the boat all the way up and all got out of the boat and waded through the water to get on shore.  However, the tide was going out quickly!  Not great thinking on any of our parts!  Before we knew it, the front part of the boat was coming out of the water.  At that point, it was too late! The boat was obviously too heavy for us to push back (although some husbands...and a wife or two that will go unnamed tried to push it back into the water). We referred to our phones for a trusty tide report and discovered that the tide wouldn't come back in until early evening!  We settled in for a longer than planned visit to Blackbeard Island!  We rationed the drinks, chips and sandwiches.  Thank goodness we packed more than enough to last us.  Don't get me wrong.  Every morsel had been eaten by the time we left the island, but it was plenty that we weren't starving and light snacked through the afternoon. Of course to document the fun adventure, we got a rare picture of everyone enjoying the boat...completely out of the boat!  Who needs water for a good time?

We did manage to get the boat pushed back into the water around 7:00 or 7:30 that evening and then high-tailed it back to the house before it got too dark! 

We will always have the family story of  "remember that time when we went to Blackbeard Island and beached the boat!"