Have you ever watched a movie where people have found a shipwreck on a beach and they get super excited? Or maybe you’ve seen movies with pirates who find a shipwreck and hope there’s lots of gold and other treasures. I’ve always thought it would be cool to see a shipwreck like that. I know that’s unrealistic, but I’ve always thought it would be cool anyway.
Well a couple of weeks ago when I was on vacation in Waves, North Carolina with my family we decided to rent a Jeep for a day, so we could drive it on the beach. While we were getting the paperwork done the lady told us about a shipwreck we could drive to on a nearby beach. When I heard the word shipwreck all I could think was “how cool is that” “I get to see an actual shipwreck “!
The next day my husband and I took our youngest daughter and grandson for a drive in that Jeep to that other beach. We slowly made our way to the shipwreck. In all honesty, I think it would have been way cooler if this shipwreck had been somewhere in the Mediterranian, but hey beggers can’t be choosers. And I guess a shipwreck anywhere is better than none, except for the people who were shipwrecked. Anyway, when we got to it we got out of the Jeep and started looking around it. There was a sign letting people know trespassers would be punished.
This ship wasn’t a pirates ship and there was no gold to be found. It was a simple fisherman’s ship that somehow managed to make its way from the water to the beach. There was however a tiny adventure in it for me and my family. It gave us a chance to see a shipwreck and walk around it while we talked about it and wondered how it managed that and in North Carolina of all places. I have no idea how the owners are going to get their ship out of that sand and back into the water, but on the bright side they gave us a tiny adventure and me a blog, so I won’t complain.
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Kathleen Smith is an indie author, blogger and she has her own podcast Kathleen’s Korner. You can read or listen about her life in Brooklyn and Upstate NY. You can also either read or listen to her personal story of how she and her husband kept their marriage together through 3 miscarriages in Miscarriages My Story