We’re currently spending one week in Corolla which is a town in the northern part of the Outer Banks. We’re staying in a large AirBnB in the Currituck Club which historically was an exclusive hunting ground used by Roosevelt, the Vanderbilts and their friends. Today, the Currituck Club Community has six hundred homes, three community pools, a golf course, tennis and basketball courts, a tiki bar and supermarket on the premises, social activities throughout the day, and more.

There’s a shuttle that runs throughout the gated community and crosses the two lane road to the beach, where beach valets are at the ready to carry your belongings for you. Or, if you don’t want to use the shuttle, you can use a golf cart which is the main mode of transportation around here. We have a six seater golf cart, complete with lights and Apple CarPlay, that comes with our AirBnB and 24 hours into our stay here it’s been perfect.

The AirBnB is three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, an outdoor shower, it has its own pool, a ping pong table, kayaks, multiple decks, and more. Miss M is in heaven with the pool and D took the golf cart to play basketball at night.

We spent a few hours at the beach riding the waves, but D can’t sit still and the pool was calling to Miss M so we spent the remainder of our first full day relaxing at the house.

Dinner tonight was at Upside, in Timbuck II, while the sunset, and it was delicious. Seared tuna, crab cakes, scallops and shrimp pasta with a lemon pesto sauce.

It’s been windy in the Outer Banks and Topsail Island…probably good otherwise the flies would land more frequently. At the beach the cranes (or whatever birds they are) fly so low to the water that I felt like they were going to crash into us. They flew directly at the car windshield when we were driving over the bridge last night. I’ve heard quite a bit about not disturbing the fragile ecosystem in the Outer Banks, and therefore I refrained from disturbing this peeper outside our bedroom window tonight.