Burial Day Monday April 20: Jon, Simba, and Bunji Burial on Dare’s Reef
Jon is placed on Dare’s Reef with his favorite cats Simba and Bunji to grow corals and be a safe place for fish to live. I know he loves being there ! with other families and the turtles.
We met at the dock at 7:30 am. The weather turned sunny rather than the predicted thunderstorms. The other members gathered while waiting for state coastal authorities to guide the boat out into the waters for the ceremony.
Steve, Gil (his brother), Kerry (Gil’s granddaughter), and Billy went on the boat. Something told me not to get on the boat cause I get very sea sick….and Erik and Nick decided to stay on land too.
After the boat left the inlet, Erika, Nick and I went to the Jolly Roger Pier across the street from the dock where the boat left – on the other side of the island facing Atlantic Ocean. We went on the Pier and saw the boats way off in the distance and they stopped in front of the pier several miles in the ocean…but we could see the boats as small figures and dots from the pier.
We realized that is where the reef is located straight off the Pier into the ocean…cause the Turtle Rehab Center’s original location was in Topsail at that same location.
While watching…wish we had binoculars ! and saw lots of dauphins dancing around the waves and seagulls passing over.
Nick carved JON’s DIRECTIONAL ARROW…look straight from that arrow and Jon is about 3-4 miles in the ocean from there on Dare’s Reef.
More pictures coming from Billy and Kerry from the boat with the placement of Jon’s cast….what I took was from the Pier looking out to where the boats were doing the burial.
