Extract from diary date 13/08:
” You went for a shower & as you showered the mossies were getting you – despite the netting door – yep, I’m at Carolina Beach drenched in 7% Deet and still getting eaten!
Drove from Jordan Lake to here today; 3 1/2 hrs. Saw Brown Pelican, Fiddler Crabs, Lunar moths, some diddy deer and sandunes full of pine.
Fab place, tired out, very hungry. Ate a jar of 5 pickled eggs – yes, just call me Paul Newman.
At least I’m here – took wrong turnings twice (“sat-nav” aka phone, kept falling over). I’m re-applying mossie spray all the time…I think I’m just giving them a shower…I need some more spray.
Did I mention I’m hungry? Paul Newman had 30 eggs.. ” And so night falls on another day…
My enduring memory of North Carolina (as I prepared to leave it) and advice to fellow Churchill travelers?
I feel humbled at being welcomed so readily by two very different Land Trusts. Take gifts to say “thankyou” for the time your hosts give you. I invested in Churchill Crowns (of course, you can only order 10) and I topped up gifts with lots of Yorkshire Dales T Shirts (my own company), a myriad of hand-made rope products from local firm Hawes Ropemakers (Outhwaites Ltd, made by bestie Caroline) and some gifts from YDMT.
Use Cutter Backwoods Spray if you camp – anything else and mosquitos are just lining up for a makeover. No apologies for the endorsement; I set out to find the only colony of wild Venus Flytrap in the world in 7% Deet spray and became buffet for the mosquito population of Carolina Beach State Park… major mistake.
It takes me 24 hours to leave North Carolina by plane.
I should have driven out.
On a Mission - learning from the CLT Movement 