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We are on our annual family beach trip to Ocean Isle this week. I was looking back on my daily posts from our trip last year and it made me want to post again. What a great way to record memories that are so easily forgotten. Last night we decided to visit the OIB pier for our nightly activity. Even though we were surprised to find out there was a fee to walk on the pier, we discovered it was well worth it. Evidently it is common to catch sharks at night because they are circling the lights around the pier. We must have seen 20 baby sharks caught in the hour we were there!! Jake was the first to ask if he could hold one and did so fearlessly to our amazement. Then he continued to ask everyone if he could hold their shark once they reeled it in and then would throw it back in the water. Maddie was next to give it try and freaked out once it started wiggling around. Even Nick Dooley jumped in there with his lifelong phobia of sharks (this was what I call exposure therapy)

Not only did we get to experience sharks, but we also met Adam. As we walked down the pier we saw a teenage boy too far out swimming in the water back to shore. A group of his friends were yelling down to him from the pier. Of course being the nosey family we are we asked what was going on and his friends said he just did a back flip off the pier and was swimming back to shore. Uncle B yelled down “I will give you 20 bucks if you come up and do it again”. Well needless to say this young lad swam back to shore as quickly as he could when he heard of the big bucks being offered. He even allowed me to capture his stupidity on camera. I must say I am questioning our decision now because as I was tucking Jake in he said, “Mom remember that guy who flipped off the pier? That was cool.”

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