This trip along the Outer Banks was far from what I'd imagined. I had envisioned pretty islands and lots of beach and nature so I was unprepared for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK4846826JQ
But it wasn't all vacation rentals and strip malls. Much more than I would have expected but there was some very pretty scenery and many interesting historic sites.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=outer+banks&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=EAA_WNjuDoSH0wLE_LiICA
Heading south from Kitty Hawk, one of the first things we encountered was a Dept of Transport sign warning of a mandatory evacuation of Ocracoke Island where we were headed. Undaunted, we continued south, a steady line of cars heading the opposite direction in the northbound lane. It was still sunny and warm and increasingly windy. We stopped at Roanoke Island, the first English settlement in the Americas where the first English birth in the New World was recorded. And then the colony just disappeared.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=outer+banks&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=EAA_WNjuDoSH0wLE_LiICA
Heading south from Kitty Hawk, one of the first things we encountered was a Dept of Transport sign warning of a mandatory evacuation of Ocracoke Island where we were headed. Undaunted, we continued south, a steady line of cars heading the opposite direction in the northbound lane. It was still sunny and warm and increasingly windy. We stopped at Roanoke Island, the first English settlement in the Americas where the first English birth in the New World was recorded. And then the colony just disappeared.
A pretty and historic place, Roanoke Is was very quiet what with the approaching storm.
We did some sightseeing there, then proceeded south past Cape Hatteras and the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" where more than 5,000 ships have sunk in these waters since record keeping began in 1526. There is a small, free ferry that connects Hatteras Is with Ocracoke Is. but the ferry crew was hesitant to allow us to board. They said they were taking people off the island, not on to it. But, in the end, they allowed us on, one of three cars going our way and we had a very nice hour's crossing to Ocracoke.
Then a drive down that island to where we caught the ferry back to the mainland.
Finally we made landfall at Cedar Island and found lodgings in Morehead City, and some great tacos!
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