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Deerstalker Chloe | March 28, 2023
The game is afoot. Award winning dog Chloe (best costume) in the 2023 Pet Parade. See the odd dogs & humans in the PAWS Pet Parade report.
Yondu sports fashionable triceratops head gear. Yondu showed off and walked in Saturday’s PAWS Pet Parade – story coming.
The Dragon Burn happens tonight after sunset. It’s the Pamlico County Arts Council membership drive. $25 for individuals, $50 for families – it gets you a year long membership in the Arts Council and entry to the Dragon Burn. Buy your membership at the gate, or get yours online here.
Maya the Lion. She won the Wild Beast award at the 2016 PAWS Pet Parade. This Saturday is the 2023 PAWS Pet Parade in Lou Mac Park at 10a. Dress up, bribe the judge, and take a chance at winning an award. It supports the Pamlico Animal Welfare Society and their mission.
The 1980 Reinke Taranga 33 Pepita in the Oriental harbor at dusk. Read about her in The Shipping News.
SV Pepita, anchored in Oriental Harbor. Pepita and her captain, Tim Sussmann, sailed up from Guatemala. Bound for New York, a brief encounter with Oriental’s bridge altered their plans. Their story is coming.
Puddles… a plein air painting by Susan Cheatham. Susan is the March Artist Of The Month at Village Gallery.
A range marker near the Rachel Carson Reserve in Beaufort, NC. There are two markers: one short and one tall. Navigators line them up vertically to keep their vessels within the navigable channel. (Click for the big view and more.)
Finishing up sailing on a windy day – the NC State Sailpack sailors head back to shore. They are spending their Spring Break in Oriental, training for upcoming regattas. It’s all based at Bow To Stern Boating. (Click for the big picture and more.)
Rebekka Nilsson, Joakim Borgen, & Moa Meinich. Members of the Norwegian bluegrass band Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra. They played in Oriental at the 2022 Ol’ Front Porch Music Festival. They’ve just released a live album. Have a listen below.
How To Repair A Friendship – a painting by Marguerite Chadwick-Juner, at Oriental’s Village Gallery.
A late winter sunrise on the Neuse.
Still water morning at marker #8.
Tug. Chief Morale Officer. Philosopher. Gentleman of leisure. He’s the March Pet of the Month.
Warmer days bring the parrots out on the deck at Endurance Seafood. Here Keith Bruno talks fishin’ on the phone, while parrot Val assists.
A cormorant hangs out on a Pecan Grove channel marker.
Sunrise on a wispy cloud, foggy morning, flock of birds, boat-in-the-fog kind of day. (To see the birds and boat better, click for the big view)
An anchored sailboat. The glow of sunrise. A flock of birds underway. It’s another morning on the Neuse.
Hannah Miller (and her partner Erick) live and cruise aboard a 1967 wooden ketch named Surprise – it’s in The Shipping News.
S/V Surprise crew member Hannah Miller on the bowsprit. Surprise and her crew were on their way to the Bahamas when they stopped in Oriental. Read about the wooden ketch in the latest Shipping News.
Lou Mac pier is a popular fishing spot. As such, one helpful soul sketched out the size limits for speckled trout and red drum. (click for the big view and more)
The Oriental bridge is just one lane of traffic. It’s because the bridge is getting inspected, a mission the state hires out every few years to make sure the bridge is safe (the last inspection was April 2021). The work is expected to be completed Monday. Crews are still out working today. (click photo for more views)
The Oriental bridge @ sunset, a drone’s eye view.
An itch that has to be scratched. This cormorant was hanging out on top of Marker #8 one early morning. (Click for the big view and more.)
It looks like it could be a secret message to the Aztec illuminati. It’s actually a Plimsoll Line. Get your nautical painted line education in this month’s Captain’s Blog.
Sunset over Arapahoe Shore, January 7 at 5:10p. (Dave Dewey photo)
A reflection of trawler Miss Kayden. This photo is flipped… the “up” side is Miss Kayden reflected in a still Oriental harbor. (click pic for the big reflective view)
Just off Hwy 306 south of Arapahoe, you might see two billy goats, doin’ what billy goats do. (Ben Casey photo)
Chaz’s Toy and Lady Deborah on a still morning in Oriental’s harbor.
Cormorants resting on the Pecan Grove Channel markers, on a foggy Thursday morning. (Click for the big view and more)
Motor vessel Liz took a ride to the free day docks at Union Point Park in New Bern. While you can’t fish – or crab – you can exit the docks and walk into downtown New Bern.
Playing among the rocks near John Bond (Minuscule) Beach.
Sunday had what is called a ‘full snow moon’. Adding to that, Laura Turgeon sent along this note: “been hare raising cold of late.” To make it all make sense, Laura drew a hare. Raised over the snow moon. Might be influenced by it being the year of the rabbit. Happy day dear reader. (Click image for complete view. Laura Turgeon drawing.)
Behind the Silos Restaurant sits the Red Rooster Bar and Stage. In the warmer months, the open air venue hosts music evening weekends and the Silospalooza Music Festival. In January, the evenings are a little quieter.
Vent cowl on S/V Thunderstriker, a 44 foot ketch, crewed by two teenagers. It’s in the Shipping News.
An oyster trawler out harvesting, on a foggy winter morning near Cedar Island. (Click for the big pic and more foggy morning views)
St. Brendan the Navigator. He hangs below decks on SV Thunderstriker, a 44 foot ketch helmed by young brothers Dean and Eddie Tennant. Read about them in The Shipping News.
Brave humans took part in the Polar Plunge Saturday at Oriental’s Miniscule Beach (officially John Bond Beach). 17 signed up, 15 went in (2 couldn’t make it). EMS was present (just in case). Thanks to thermal endurance, over 5k was raised. (click pic for more polar views)
A Belted Kingfisher surveys the Duck Pond.
January sunset, viewed from the Duck Pond. (Bill Penkava photo)
Crashing waves at Styrontown Beach as the storm approached Wednesday. (Ben Casey photo)
