Day 18 – Took a drive today, heading about an hour South to Cedar Point and the area known as Emerald Isle. Cedar Point is at the lower part of Croatan National Forest and there’s a campground we wanted to check out. It is open all year; the one we’re staying at now opens in March and closes for the Winter. For future trips we need to find campgrounds open all year. Cedar Point is a very nice, clean campground, by the water like this one we’re at now, more open than this one but there are still private sites. The trees are older and bigger here, further South, probably more logging done where we are now. We marked down our favorite sites because when you reserve in advance, you can pick your site.
Near Cedar Point we took a bridge across to the Emerald Isle, a barrier island that runs parallel to the coast. Quite populated with nice homes and lots of condo’s, it was fairly crowded and it’s only March. Nice drive though; we crossed over to the mainland at Morehead City and stopped for sandwiches at Jersey Mike’s. They don’t have this sandwich shop near home – I wish they did; it was very good.
We drove back to our campground. The kitties missed us and entertained us for awhile when we got back. Rob took a bike ride on some trails in the woods. The high today was 60 degrees, sunny and windy. The low last night was 34 degrees. More people are starting to arrive at the campground for the weekend.