Headed to Seymour Johnson AFB then Camp Lejeune Marine Base

  We were on the road by 8:00 today for the 45 minute drive to Seymour Johnson AFB in Goldsboro, NC to check out the RV storage area.  We plan to leave Harvey there at the beginning of Nov on our way home from Jekyll Island, GA, so we don't have to bring him home and "winterize" him.  Then we will pick him up on our way to Florida in January.  All was well there, so we got back on the road for our 2 and 1/2 hr drive to Camp Lejeune Marine Base in New River, NC.  We arrived at about 11:30 and checked in without any problem.  We will be staying 3 nights.  The base is huge!!  We had to drive another 8 miles to get to the CG after entering the base!  It is located right next to the Intercoastal Waterway.

 

The entrance side on the right...

 

...the drawbridge in between...

 

...the exit side on the right

  The CG has 36 sites with full hook UPS.  The ocean is across the street just over the dunes.  There are a couple dozen cottages and bungalows all along the street and ocean that can be rented.  The beach is known for fossilized teeth and bones of sharks, dolphins, whales, and believe it or not... wholly mammoths!  John set up outside Harvey while I organized inside.  Then we went back to the office to check out their fossil collection.  It was incredible!  I never saw so many huge shark teeth, coral, and bone pieces.  I was so excited John thought I was going to wet myself.  I could hardly wait to get out there and hunt for them!! 

These are all from Great White sharks.  I think
you would hear me scream all the way in PA if I found one of them!!

He gave us this postcard to help identify the various kinds of teeth.

So we went back to Harvey, had some lunch, changed into our bathing suits and out we went.  It was near 90 degrees and very humid but the water was gorgeous... like bath water.  We were out until about 6:00 when the tide started coming back in.  I even swam in the ocean a bit.  We were pretty successful with shark teeth although none of them were very big.  John did find a rib bone from a wholly mammoth! 

I could do this all day long!!

You can see all the shells laying all over
the beach at low tide.  It was actually pretty
easy to spot sharks teeth.

The sun is starting to set.

John took this with a "fish eye" setting.  Pretty neat, huh!

Here's our "catch" for the day.  The wholly mammoth
bone is top right, sea glass on bottom left.  The upper left
is just a stone shaped like a chicken head...I liked it.

Hey, Sis, picked up a few for you to use for your jewelry.
The beach is a treasure trove for you!!

We came in, got showers and headed off base to Food Lion to get a few things.  Then we went to Texas Roadhouse for a steak supper.  It was yummy!

The moon was so pretty shining over the ocean!

  When we got back to Harvey we watched some TV then turned in about 10:30.  I joked with John that we should get up in time for low tide at 4:30 so we would have the jump on shark tooth hunting.  For some reason he wasn't interested!