Guus Bosman

After we visited the Orton plantation we made a stop next to a lake where we saw our first wild alligators ever. After that amazing experience we returned to downtown Wilmington where we had lunch at the river side in a nice French restaurant.

On our way back from Wilmington we stopped at the Moores Creek National Battlefield. This is a small park with a visitor's center to commemorate the battle in the Revolutionary War between Loyalists and Patriots.

The battle was short but it was significant because it was the first battlefield victory for the Patriots and it inspired the state of North Carolina some years later to vote for independence of Britain.

Part of the field where it all happened is now left to nature.