Hunting Island Day 2

Tuesday September 24  Hunting Island Day 2

Clear blue skies, ocean in the distance through the pine trees – temperature in the 70’s with a nice breeze.  Coffee in our new Hunting Island mugs and a nice breakfast.  We have been leaving the air conditioner on at night as it gets warm and sticky – the humidity. 

We headed over to the beach for a while – tide out small waves lapping.  Ben had seen a lot of shells mostly broken yesterday but nothing but plain sand today.  Maybe 20 people up and down the beach.  Not too much soft sand to make it through to get to the hard packed down sand.  We brought our chairs and enjoyed watching all the activity and the soft waves.  

Ben on beach above - turtle nest below

Then back to camp for lunch.  Ben confirmed he is expected in Columbia SC on Monday am for an inspection so we began checking out where to stay Friday and Saturday night.  No room at the inn here so we will begin looking for where to go unless there is a cancellation.  Keep checking back they told me. 

Lunch was the shrimp I steamed yesterday – some crackers and a little kidney bean salad.  Ben began setting up all his crabbing and fishing gear and we headed south to the end of the island for him to fish.  I chose to stay in the van under a palm tree and read my book!  He fished for about an hour and caught and released a couple fish.   I walked down with him to collect his crab trap.   History on crab trap is we had one that had been about the Harris family for some years….lost several years ago maybe here Ben does not remember….so he ordered a new one on amazon – from china - $4 delivered!  So he had a low cost trap baited with chicken necks near the dock. 

When Ben pulled the crab trap up ..up..up. In the blink of an eye I took the photo and the crab trap was gone…to join others in the bottom of the sea.  So we packed up and headed back to camp.

Luckily I had bought flounder to broil for dinner since we were empty handed from the fishing.  Ben however had enjoyed his hour and half fishing!  Showers felt good and then Jane cooked the flounder, some hush puppies from Fisherman’s Dock at home (from the freezer) and a veggie.  We also ate the last of the steamed shrimp. 

We had two interesting conversations with neighbors – one couple from Minnesota that had been on many of the same journeys we had in past – the stickers on the Sprinter often encourage conversations. We enjoyed swapping stories.  Another couple were very interested in the Sprinter – wife wanted something she could drive instead of the huge RV they have. 

Again to bed in cool air-conditioned temperatures for a TV show from Ben’s hard drive and some reading.