We Are Closer to the Coast

 This drive was even tougher than Ft. Bragg... we had to drive another 52 miles to Onslow Beach.

Onslow Beach is located on MCCS Camp Lejeune. The first thing we must do is correct the pronunciation of this base. Most of us, including me, pronounce Lejeune as "Lejune", however, the correct pronunciation is "LeJern". Now that we have that straightened out, let's move on. 

After I got the trailer backed into our site, we continued setup... until we ran into a small issue... Carol couldn't lower the stairs. When I backed in I got fairly close to the covered picnic table. I had to unhook the electrical, and hook the truck back up so that I could pull the trailer forward about a foot. Lesson learned. Other than that, the stay was pretty uneventful.

Our stay here was a chilly one, with some rain. Because of the distance of the park from the main entrance of the base (over 7 miles), we didn't do too much. We did walk to the ocean a couple times looking for shark's teeth, without luck. One of the long stay RVers found a small tooth for Carol.

This tooth is from a small shark. Some of the long stay folks have found Megalodon teeth, even a few sand dollars, but the beach is strewn with shells, mostly oyster; we have two containers full of shells.

 

We did find a sponge on one of our walks. When we weren't outside chilling... literally... we were inside, but that didn't stop the Marines from training, mostly air ops, and some gun fire. We had the opportunity to see on osprey...

Oh... you were thinkin' the bird, weren't you. The other excitement was watching the bridge we came over, by the campground, rotate to let boats down the channel. While I was taking the trash out, I had the opportunity of seeing the bridge rotate to let a large masted sailboat, and a crane barge pushed by two tugs pass through on the way down the channel.

That's all for this stay, hopefully we'll do more at the next stop.