Vacation in the Carolinas

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Bob in St. Louis

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Vacation in the Carolinas
« on: 3 Aug 2009, 09:52 pm »
The family and I have been gone for just over a week with no communication to the outside world. In a way, it's relaxing, yet slightly unnerving at the same time.

The family and I spent about four days in a very secluded log cabin on 100 acres in North Carolina. No tourist sites, no neon signs, nobody....NOBODY around. Nothing but us, a small lake, and lots of trees.
Next, we spent about four days in South Carolina (in the swamp) at a beach resort condo thingy. People everywhere, but still pretty slim as far as tourist things are concerned. Really not much in the way of "neon, tourist" things. Out of about 420 pictures I took, here are a mere 22. These are my "first round draft picks" you could say. These are the best I could do as an novice photographer. A large percentage of the 400+ pictures I took look like garbage from a photographers standpoint. Fine for the Grandmothers to see their Grandchildren, but not good enough to submit as "quality photographs".
Basically, these are the photos I thought where neat and had decent photographic quality.

==Palm trees outside the condo


==Um......Don't want to know.........


==Pelicans in formation


=="Cave Boy" doing his best to stay out of the burning sun.
Note: Beer in hand while the wind is attempting to mangle my umbrella


==Beach bird things. Quite entertaining watching them scurry around the sand while running from waves coming in.


==Seagull


==Boat floating by the shore


==Seagull


==A sign at the condo reminding us humans that we're still within reach of Mother Nature.
I didn't have many questions after reading this sign.


==Looking left at the golf course from the back deck at the condo


==Moss from the trees


==Looking to the right at the golf course from the back deck at the condo


==Washed up on shore.
Coral I assume?


==An attempt at cool photography


==I could live here in a heartbeat given the chance.


==No description needed


==No description needed


== A look at a small slice of the 100 acres at the cabin


==Cabin kitchen


==Cabin sitting area


==Path behind the cabin up into the deep dark woods


==The fence on the path looking back at the lake

richidoo

Re: Vacation in the Carolinas
« Reply #1 on: 3 Aug 2009, 10:02 pm »
Looks like a very fun trip Bob. We were vacationing on NC coast too, in Carolina Beach. It was very windy, but a little cloudy to hold back the sun. Perfect beach weather.

nathanm

Re: Vacation in the Carolinas
« Reply #2 on: 3 Aug 2009, 10:52 pm »
That is one wicked bug!

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Re: Vacation in the Carolinas
« Reply #3 on: 4 Aug 2009, 02:54 am »
Nice bird shots - feel free to pop them into the "Birds" topic, and I would like to know the camera/lens/aperature info if you have it!

Mr Content

Re: Vacation in the Carolinas
« Reply #4 on: 4 Aug 2009, 07:31 am »
Nice Bob, hey who was that handsome man............... Thanks again for the pics

Nig aa

jimdgoulding

Re: Vacation in the Carolinas
« Reply #5 on: 4 Aug 2009, 08:19 am »
Very nice pictures.  I can feel ya.

werd

Re: Vacation in the Carolinas
« Reply #6 on: 13 Aug 2009, 05:04 am »
Very nice pictures.  I can feel ya.

 :D nice photos, so what kinda alligator disturbing did you do?

Bob in St. Louis

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Re: Vacation in the Carolinas
« Reply #7 on: 14 Aug 2009, 02:02 pm »
 :lol: Didn't do any actually. Was kind of looking forward to seeing one, but never did.

Thanks for the complements fellas.  :thumb:

jqp, I think the wifey has the SD card that these photos are stored on. I'll grab it from her and see if I can find the info. I'll also add the bird shots to the thread.

Bob

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Re: Vacation in the Carolinas
« Reply #8 on: 15 Aug 2009, 02:02 am »
Nice bird shots - feel free to pop them into the "Birds" topic, and I would like to know the camera/lens/aperature info if you have it!
The deed has been done.  :wink:

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Re: Vacation in the Carolinas
« Reply #9 on: 15 Aug 2009, 02:21 am »
Bob,

Looks like you got some real r&r with this trip.  Very often one comes home feeling more tired than when he began a vacation. 

Paul

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Re: Vacation in the Carolinas
« Reply #10 on: 15 Aug 2009, 02:36 am »
Very true Paul.
For the first time in our vacation history, there was no itinerary, nothing but R&R.
Lounge around and stare at the trees.
Given the opportunity, I could soooo do this.

But yea, coming back home and getting "up to speed" with life and all it has dumped has been a bit of a challenge.

Bob