First Presbyterian Church with fall color and another beautiful fall tree with spanish moss.
Not sure which church this is, but I saw three other people taking this same photo. The marina from the river walk.
A gazebo in a small park on the river walk. Bern means bear so the city symbol is a bear. Here are a couple cute painted bears around town. I also saw this bear head on a couple of the older buildings, this one is decorated for christmas.
The historic courthouse with a really cool steeple and the methodist church.
Of course we had lunch at the Beer Army brewpub. Here is John with their IPA. The food and the beer were very good. This pharmacy was the birthplace of Pepsi. It still has the old soda fountain but the rest of the shop sells Pepsi memorabilia.
Another sunny high 60's day. We paddled 6 miles roundtrip on Cahooque Creek. John paddling between a small tree growing out of stump in the creek and some fall color.
The water looks black deep but it is really tea colored brown when it is shallow. John as far back as we could get. There is supposed to be a family of gaters living here, but it must be too cold for them, or the took off when the heard us coming, we didn't see them. We did see some fish, great blue herons, and many other birds.
John at lunch and paddling back. Beautiful paddle. When you camp or boat on the Neuse River you get to be entertained by the fighter jets from Cherry Point marine air station. Lots of harriers, cool tp watch but very loud.
A green anole which can turn brown or green depending on it's surroundings and tall reeds against blue sky. Rainy, cloudy and cool. We went to the Duck Decoy Festival in Harkers Island. It was the coolest duck decoy festival I have ever been too. Of course it is the only one. It was very interesting. The decoys were really pretty.
The decoy festival was held in the elementary school. The hall was lined with the kids entries for the poster contest. Some decoys. I don't have the eye to tell a great decoy from a mediocre one. They were all cool. You could buy naked ducks and paint them- they even come with the eye's included and there were booths with hand made duck calls and whistles.
One of the booths was selling handmade pecan shell decoys. They were so cute I got a couple-a wood duck and a loon. I always buy some locally made xmas ornaments on the road. I got this oyster shell santa at a booth on the side of the road. The bar in one of the breweries had a map of the North Carolina coast made out of different types of barely. We passed the Sanitary fish market and restaurant- guess that is better than unsanitary. Licence plate with North Carolina light houses, and the Cape Lookout National Seashore is more barrier islands right off the coast south of the Outer Banks. A voice level chart from the elementary school- I love it that the highest level-shouting is only for the teachers. After the decoy festival we went to Beaufort and Morehead City so John could visit 3 breweries. In Morehead they were having the Chowder and Cheer event. You could purchase a ticket and taste chowder and a taster glass of what ever cheer the establishment has all over town. Looked like over 30 places, so the breweries were packed with Chowder people. They favored bud light over the tasty craft beers. Hope they had better taste in the chowder.
This statue of Black Beard is HUGE, I only came up to his boots. Blackbeard ran his pirate ships in this area. Even had a house up the coast. from what I remember of photos of him he was a bit heavier than this.
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