Tomorrow is the 11th Annual Spring Homes Tour & Art show. The event is sponsored by the friends of the Western Carteret Library. The homes tour and art show run from 10am to 4pm. Tickets are $12 before the day of the show and $15 the day of.
My current landlord has family moving to the area, and needs the room I currently rent. This is both reasonable and understandable. Since he informed me of this I have been feverishly looking for a pet-friendly annual rental or long term rental in Emerald Isle or Morehead City. I currently live on the island, and would prefer to remain there, especially since I made it through the dead winter and have been looking forward to spending another summer in Emerald Isle.
After a great morning of fishing on Saturday, I decided to roll over to the Emerald Isle St. Patrick’s Festival at the Emerald Plantation Shopping Center. As I expected the great weather we were having would draw the masses to the festival. I sure was glad I rode my scooter since all the good parking spots were already occupied by cars and trucks. I knew the turnout would be good, but I had no idea it would be as big as I’d ever seen it.
This morning I looked outside and noticed it was looking like another fine spring day was headed for the Crystal Coast. I then checked to see what the tide was like. To my delight it would be falling for the next two hours. I thought to myself, “Man, I need to get out and do some fishing today.” So I grabbed my rod and headed to K&V in Emerald Isle to grab some bait.
This Saturday I heard there was a party at the Emerald Club in Emerald Isle. It was hard to believe, but someone told me there would be free beer/wine and free food from 7-9pm. The words “free beer” are usually enough to get me out and about. So I went and checked it out. The deal was Will from Crystal Coast Outdoors was having a little get-together for his advertisers. Crystal Coast Outdoors is a new magazine covering the Crystal Coast. Thanks for throwing one heck of a party Will!
Yesterday I was talking to my friend Scott who was at the sandbags on the point in Emerald Isle. He and another fellow were fishing down there and it didn’t sound like they were catching much. After I got off the phone with him I went to the Emerald Grill and grabbed an order of hot wings. I thought maybe I could catch a drum while eating my lunch so I stopped in at K&V to get some finger mullet.
The Emerald Isle Police Department has grown considerably since I moved to the Crystal Coast back in 2003. Tonight I was making my way home from Morehead City after visiting some friends. I thought for sure the police in Morehead City would stop me considering the hour of the night. I didn’t hit the road until right at 2 a.m. and everyone knows this is when the bars close and folks who have been drinking hit the road.
The Point in Emerald Isle has seen better days as far as sand is concerned. The town deployed the sandbags back in 2001 due to Bogue Inlet Channel eroding the sand there. Some houses were losing their decks and stairs that used to lead to the beach. Other houses like the octagonal shaped Carousel were near falling into the channel.
That all changed in 2005 as a result of an expansive effort to shift Bogue Inlet westward. For a time it looked as though the engineers had achieved the unachievable and tamed the rushing tides as well as their impact to Emerald Isle’s shoreline. The sandbags became buried under the newly “accreted” sand. Native plants even started taking root on the new real estate.