Our Emerald Isle Vacation —June
2006

Our family plans a
beach vacation every summer, and this year was no exception. We searched the
Emerald Isle Realty website, found the perfect house for us, and then worked
out the kinks: when should we travel, should we take our bikes, could we take
our portable grill? We decided on activities suited to a wide range of
ages—eleven to forty-six. Everyone agreed that sitting on the beach, plugged
into our iPods, whiling away the day watching puffy cloud formations on the horizon
would take up a good portion of our time. But we also wanted to stay active. So
our first outing was kayaking in the sound.

We spent most of
the day paddling around small marshy landmasses observing the local bird life.
We spotted herons, varieties of ducks, and terns. We next headed toward an
island known for fossilized shark’s teeth. We stepped out onto the sandy beach
as crabs scuttled past our feet. 
Shells, burnt wood from campfires, and sea grass undulated below the
surf. Then, right at the edge of land and sea, buried halfway in the sand we
found them—perfect specimens of fossilized shark’s teeth. The searching proved
to be almost as engrossing as the call of the waves back at the beach.