June 12 – 19, 2023
Oregon Inlet
The Kingfisher had lots of kids on board last week and they all had a blast. We had some good dolphin sightings, learned a little about commercial crabbing, found lots of Hermit crabs, saw lots of birds, and caught loads of fish.
Highlights include dolphins swimming under the boat, watching a stingray swim two inches from shore in two inches of water, and finding a Hermit crab with some cool looking purple stuff on its shell.
Coolest gross thing to happen was when I started pulling on what I thought was a piece of line coming out of the mouth of a Sea robin. I pulled on "the string" and it was really an eight-inch Pipefish. We cut it up and tried it for bait but had no bites.
Get in touch with me at soundsideadventures.com if you would like to make some long-lasting family memories this summer.
Fish
- Pinfish
- Atlantic puffer
- Atlantic croaker
- Pigfish
- Black sea bass
- Sea robin
- Southern kingfish (sea mullet)
Cool Stuff Found or Seen
- Hermit crabs
- Blue crabs
- Ghost crabs
- Whelks
- Striped mullets
- Oysters
- Barnacles
- Bodie Island lighthouse
- Bottlenose dolphins
Birds (partial list)
- Osprey
- Herring gull
- Ring-billed gull
- Laughing gull
- Greater black-backed gull
- Brown pelican
- Royal trern
- Least tern
- Common tern
- Roseate tern
- Canada goose
- Double-crested cormorant
- Great egret
- Snowy egret
- Willet
- Ruddy turnstone
- American oystercatcher
- Marsh wren
- Common yellowthroat
- White-eyed vireo
