Penguin Tour of the Mideast, June 2006

BEAUFORT, AMERICA'S SAIL, PINE KNOLL AQUARIUM, EMERALD ISLE

Three Belles at the downtown dock, where ships could be seen but not boarded.

The 1831 Fuller House in downtown Beaufort, one of several historic houses there.

Inside the maritime museum, Daniel and Adam pose next to a cannon brought up from a ship believed to be the Queen Anne's Revenge.

This area claims Blackbeard as a hero of sorts; here are more artifacts from the wreck.

Here are Daniel and Adam inside...

...this diving bell, which had little films of what they might see outside in the Atlantic.

Adam in front of tanks with local marine life.

At the pirate encampment in downtown Beaufort.

The hedge maze.

Posing in front of a photograph at the Pine Knoll Aquarium.

A fiddler crab in the salt marsh...

...and an egret.

Daniel touches a stingray in one of the three touch tanks.

A fish swims in front of a shipwreck exhibit.

At Kay and Chris' beachhouse...

...and the view from their porch of the Atlantic.