Rodanthe

75°28'8"W
35°35'17"N
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We made it up to Rodanthe today with ease. Sorry for the short blog post this morning but we didn't hit the water till 11. Hillarys friend Stewart was a great host and cooked us dinner and everything. We have had a paddling buddy the last two days that I have forgot to mention till now. As we kayaked into Ocracoke we saw someone on shore with a kayak beached. We waved and kept up the fight against the current into the harbor. When we pulled up at the marina in Hatteras a woman asked us if we just paddled into Ocracoke the day before. We got to talking and realized she was the one we waved to. She said she would love to paddle with us the next day. We were exhausted and assumed she meant that she would like to paddle with us but couldn't. As we were setting out the next morning she was there with her gear ready to paddle. She made the trip up to Avon with us and said she would like to paddle with us the next day as well. While walking to get breakfast this morning someone honked their horn at us and there she was. Angie is her name and she manages the motel next to where we stayed in Hatteras. She kept up with us pretty well the last two days despite paddling a whitewater boat. We think today was our last day paddling with her because I can't imagine her taking that boat across Oregon Inlet, but who knows. We are staying two campsites down from an Airstream trailer. I really wanted to go over and talk to the guy who owns it but Hillary informed me that she saw him wearing nothing but boy shorts doing camp chores when walking back from the bathroom. Maybe one day if we do both become teachers we can spend our summers down here camping waterfront in an airstream, but i don't plan on getting a pair of boy shorts.