Company

This past week we were treated to company.  Best friends Ron and Robin Terry found a little time off and a plane, and hopped over to Ocracoke from Raleigh for the weekend.  They arrived Friday afternoon.

Ron and Robin selfie just after landing at the airstrip in Ocracoke

Here is their transportation (Piper Seneca) tied down for the weekend at the airstrip

We had a group of 4 couples on the boat for dinner Friday evening:  (Ron and Robin our friends from Raleigh, Shay and Margaret from Ocracoke, Russ and Michelle from Ocracoke, and Keith and I from wherever we happen to be ). As usual there was too much food.  We had appetizers, then lobster tails and fillets as the main.  Sides of cucumber salad, antipasta salad, and broccoli salad rounded out the main meal.  Margaret made fig cake that was "to die for" as desert.

Surf and Turf for dinner Friday night

Margarette's Fig Cake  

Some of you might remember from previous Ocracoke posts that fig trees are abundant on the island.  Locals have been using figs in baking and preserves for decades and fig cake is one of the island's best known treats. 

The next day (Saturday) we took Ron and Robin around the island in the Jeep and got them out four wheeling on the beach.  We even were able to take the dinghy over to Portsmouth Island with them for some shelling.  It was high tide and the beach is seeing a lot of vacationers right now.  I only found one small Scotch Bonnet with a small hole in it.  Things have been picked over pretty hard.  But we still had fun.

Saturday evening Russ and Michelle Reynolds had Ron, Robin, Keith and I as well as two other couples to their house for dinner.  We had quite the spread with appetizers wings, chicken, and London broil.  If you see a pattern here with food, you might be onto something.  It was a great evening.

Sunday we took Ron and Robin to Eduardo's for lunch before they had to fly back.  This food truck is a landmark on Ocracoke and I think has some of the best food ever.

Eduardo's

You can not beat the fish tacos as the fish is always fresh

Trigger fish tacos for lunch

The weekend went much too fast.  It was time for our friends to head back to Raleigh.   Since we will be here through the fall, we are hoping they will be able to return: maybe even for a little longer than just two days.  We saw them off at the airstrip.

Off they go back to Raleigh