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We went to Kill Devil Hills for the Memorial Day weekend with some friends of Lisa's from graduate school. We stayed a couple of blocks away from the Wright Brothers National Memorial and within walking distance of the beach. It's a great group of people and the chance to gather together is priceless. Extra special are the children in the group, each reunion brings new experiences and beautiful memories.
On the flip side of the coin the was the unfortunate experience of beach items left unattended for too long that ended up missing. The first, obvious, suspicion was theft. It went missing late Monday afternoon so perhaps someone thought it was abandoned after the holiday weekend. One of us thought that perhaps the beachfront facing the local hotel was periodically cleaned in the early evening by the business seeking to maintain a clean beach. However, after hearing fireworks erupt at 2AM I theorized the persons responsible were young and stupid with nothing better to do - perhaps teenagers simply carried the goods a hundred yards and threw them into the dumpster as a prank. The volume of the missing goods caused me to disbelieve someone actually put it all into a vehicle and drove away. Among the missing; a ~6' diameter tent, a ~6' diameter inflatable children's pool, and multiple sand buckets and shovels. The tent was rather large and heavy. It's hard to imagine someone actually taking the time to deflate the pool but it happened. It must have been a lengthy process requiring a bit of effort. In any event it put a damper on the enjoyment of the beach and presumably puts off any notion of a return visit for a group of 18 adults and anyone they know.
On the flip side of the coin the was the unfortunate experience of beach items left unattended for too long that ended up missing. The first, obvious, suspicion was theft. It went missing late Monday afternoon so perhaps someone thought it was abandoned after the holiday weekend. One of us thought that perhaps the beachfront facing the local hotel was periodically cleaned in the early evening by the business seeking to maintain a clean beach. However, after hearing fireworks erupt at 2AM I theorized the persons responsible were young and stupid with nothing better to do - perhaps teenagers simply carried the goods a hundred yards and threw them into the dumpster as a prank. The volume of the missing goods caused me to disbelieve someone actually put it all into a vehicle and drove away. Among the missing; a ~6' diameter tent, a ~6' diameter inflatable children's pool, and multiple sand buckets and shovels. The tent was rather large and heavy. It's hard to imagine someone actually taking the time to deflate the pool but it happened. It must have been a lengthy process requiring a bit of effort. In any event it put a damper on the enjoyment of the beach and presumably puts off any notion of a return visit for a group of 18 adults and anyone they know.
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Man, that sucks about your stuff. Greg Kizer and I stayed in Kill Devil Hills when I moved back to South Bend from Myrtle Beach. We played a killer game of late-night hide-and-seek in and around the grassy dunes. The lighting on the beach at night is otherworldly with all the shadows from the hills and vegetation.
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