I blog for you/Send me your memories

I have created this blog to share interesting information about the people and places on the NC Coast. Features include: books, articles, interviews, photographs, recipes, history, family stories and memories along with any other information to entertain, inform and hopefully encourage you to visit our beautiful beaches. Come for a visit, stay for a lifetime! Send all submissions for consideration (books, products, photos, etc.) to: selenasdp@yahoo.com. I answer all emails!

Some of my fondest memories growing up are the summer vacations spent at the beach with my family. Just the smell of Coppertone lotion turns me into that 10 year old kid digging the moat around my sandcastle. Sticky from the combination of that greasy lotion and sea water, covered from head to toe in sand and grit that never washed out until you got home. I'm chasing fiddler crabs, finding shark's teeth, picking up pebbles and watching out for beached jellyfish. The adults told us that if you get stung by a jellyfish you have to put urine on it to stop the burn. We made very wide circles around the jellyfish, believe me! Night time brought out the fireworks. I was always hiding behind an adult because with the wind, you never knew where those bottle rockets were going! We've had a few close calls!

The food was exotic compared to home and was always so good! We cooked at the house mostly, but the restaurants were awesome. All those giant fish on the walls, mountains of shelled stuff, eyeballs, tentacles, fins, and you got to peel your own shrimp before you ate it. Kids love to play with their food and the adults got in on it too. Wearing bibs and smashing crab legs laughing and having a wonderful time. That is the biggest impression I take from all the memories: we were all so very happy.

I cherish those memories and have carried on the tradition of family vacations at the coast with my kids. They have their own memories and I look forward to posting some of those to share with you in upcoming blogs posts.

I love to read and will offer book reviews often. Please feel free to send me titles that you have enjoyed or that you have written about the NC coast.

There are so many treasures to discover!