January was a pretty exciting month. It was the month that my parents and I moved to the beach! Notice I didn’t say that we moved into our new house…because it wasn’t quite finished. But thanks to the very quick sale of both of our houses, we had to move before the new house was finished. So, in January we moved into a rental in Caswell Beach. It was right on the Intracoastal, across from the beach, and beside the Oak Island Lighthouse and Coast Guard Station. Thanks to the perfect location, the dogs got to start every single morning with a long walk on the beach….and ended a lot of afternoons the same way.
Lucky for the dogs, they could be off leash in the offseason, so even though our rental didn’t have a fenced in yard, between walks and running on the beach they got plenty of exercise.
During the month we lived on Caswell Beach, we were able to check in on our house pretty much every day. It was so hard to know everything was almost finished and not be able to move in!
When the driveway gets poured…you know move in day is close!
The kitchen ready and waiting for appliances
My bedroom just waiting on furniture
I’ve always loved the beach, but during January I fell even more in love with solitary, chilly walks on our deserted beach. Knowing that the spring and summer would bring lots of people made me appreciate the quiet even more.
I’ll end with some of my favorite photos from January.
The Oak Island Lighthouse was a great start and end point for daily walks
Sunrise over Caswell, sunset over the west end of the island
Echo and Marley didn’t care that the air was cold and the water colder n January!
So beautiful that I had to post another one!
Sunset over the west end of the island
Echo loves chasing sea foam…but quickly learned not to taste!
Chasing the sunset
