Maritime Museum

After Fort Macon came the North Carolina maritime museum.  We had been looking forward to this place for months!  After watching Pirates of the Carribean 4 we looked up info online about Blackbeard.  We were surprised to learn that he sunk his ship right off the coast of NC, and the remains were in this museum!  We had to see it!

We were having fun before we even got in the door.  This anchor was in the parking lot.

Inside an exploratory submarine.  It was so claustrophobic in there.  The kids loved it though.

I somehow managed to forget to take any pictures of Blackbeard's things!  I must have been oohing and ahhing too much to grab the camera.  But the artifacts were really neat and the museum staff were a hoot as well!