Date: Walk the trails off Dow Road in Carolina/Kure Beach
Result: If you checked out our blog last week, you may remember that we created 26 non-paying and 26 paying types of dates for our challenge. We decided to alternate between the two types weekly. We drew from the non-paying pile of cards for our first date, primarily because we spent so much money over the holidays.
Maria lives in Kure Beach and I live in Carolina Beach. Both beaches are located on Pleasure Island, which is bordered on the eastern side by the Atlantic Ocean and the western side by the Cape Fear River. Connecting the two beaches on the western side of the island is Dow Road. The majority of woods between Dow Road and the Cape Fear River are federally owned and marked with no trespassing signs. There is however, a Methodist cemetery that is accessible. There you find a modern graveyard and a civil war period graveyard about 100 yards into the woods. You can walk trails behind the cemeteries and if you go back another 200-300 yards, you come to an opening to the river. Luck was on our side, as we made our way back to the river at low tide. Low tide exposes a thin strip of smoothly sanded beaches. It was really pretty back there as you can see in the pictures below. We walked along the shores and took in the beauty. We considered our first of fifty2 first dates to have been a success.
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