Seafood

One of the delights of staying here is the fresh seafood.  It's plentiful, healthy, low-fat, low-carb, and loaded (I like to imagine) with good things like fish oil.  Last night, Martha prepared bay scallops (caught just a little way up the coast), lightly sauteeing them with spinach, with a serving of tomato pie, a specialty of Dockside 'N Duck.

Tonight we're going to have crab cakes, freshly made at Dockside 'N Duck.  With food this fresh and close at hand, and an excellent chef in Martha, we seldom go to any of the fine restaurants here.

Today's weather was like yesterday's - a little bit of sun teasing us out, and then showers off and on most of the afternoon.  (This does not interfere with the consumption of seafood, however, or the reading of British mysteries!).  It was the perfect afternoon to go up to Corolla to see (in between the rain showers) the Currituck Lighthouse and outbuildings, the little Island Village with its bookstore, and the Whalehead Club with its little arched bridge, a photograph of which hangs in our house.  Every year we end up going here and taking the same photos, but I never tire of this place.