Hatteras Awakens

Pi Day (3.14 – get it?) has passed as has the Ides of March (3-15) things are starting to wake up around here. People that haven’t been answering their phone because they were in Florida are back. The grass is starting to turn from straw to shades of green.
Five kite boarders were out at Canadian Hole the other day and they were cranking, probably locals and instructors getting in some good flying before they have to start instructing. Signs on restaurants are changing from looking for help to announcing when they are opening. The local giant boogie board T-shirt shop turned on their neon “open” signs, which will no doubt stay on - even when they are closed - until they shutdown in the fall.
The temperatures have been in the high 60’s low 70’s most of the time until today when a big front with heavy duty winds came through and dropped us into the 40’s.
People back in Maryland asked us what we were going to do down here in the winter and now we are wondering where the winter went.
Other folks have asked me do I fish and the answer is that I have been fishing three, no make that four, times in my life. But I’ve got a host of folks who have offered to teach me. I think fishing must be a Zen like activity; being one with the elements and all that. I do need to get out there and do it; just like I need to get out there and start kite boarding, wind surfing and regular old plain surfing.
There’s a lot going on and I frankly don’t know when I’ll get around to doing all of it.
- Rick