Continuation of Oriental, NC

Oriental, NC continued......

This was such a friendly town and very quaint!

This is the inside of The Bean.  Loved the idea of sitting, playing checkers and/or chess and drinking a cup of their coffee!  We did not take the time to do this.  We got our coffee to go.  So much to see and do!

A sample of one of their streets.  This is the main street in town.

Enjoyed a delicious dinner of oysters here.  Very yummy!  We were also joined by our new friends, Kathy and Lee.  They came in after we had ordered to have a late lunch.  We were at a table already and had just ordered an early dinner.  We shared a nice meal together!

The town had a dragon theme going on.  It was explained to us that years ago they had a festival of some sort with an oriental theme - hence the oriental dragon - and it stuck.  There were dragons of all sorts all through the town.  There were a lot of dragon type things to purchase in all the stores!    Here is a sampling!

This was on a stores building in the front.

 Not sure what kind of oak tree this was, but I loved how pretty the acorn looked!  Very delicate!

This was a statue in the front of one of their office buildings.

Sunset set photo taken from our boat.  Loved the reflection of the moon on the water.

On one of the evenings, I caught some of the rising of the moon. 

I never get tired of any of the water fowl.  This gull was on the piling on our dock.  He/she claimed it and got in a lot of arguments over it.  Others kept trying to usurp his/her place, but this one would have none of it!  Got pretty loud sometimes!  We could get pretty close to it and he/she wouldn't flinch!