Top 10 Things To Do on Ocracoke
1. Start the day at one of the local coffee shops, Ocracoke Coffee Co. or Magic Bean Coffee Bazaar. Instead of rushing off with your coffee in hand, sit down outside and savor your breakfast while making new friends, island style.
2. Hit the bike path at the edge of town, riding or walking along N.C. 12 from town... Read More
Outer Banks Seafood How Tos
How to Clean A Blue Crab
Steamed crabs are one of the most delectable seafood treats. But there’s a definite art to cleaning a blue crab so that you get every little morsel of meat out of that tricky shell. Here’s how you do it:
1. Remove the two large pincer claws by breaking them off at the body. Set the claws... Read More
Outer Banks Driving Tips: The Bypass vs. the Beach Road
On the central Outer Banks there are two main roads of travel: the Bypass and the Beach Road. These roads run parallel to each other through Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills and Nags Head. Both have their own personalities: One is the ambitious go-getter, a strategist always looking for the most efficient way to get the... Read More
Outer Banks Things to Do: Pokémon Go!
A new kind of wave swept the Outer Banks in the summer of 2016. This wave was not heat or water related, however. It was a wave of nostalgia combined with cutting-edge technology: the release of Pokémon Go.
This game is a reinvention of the Pokémania craze that swept the world back in the late '90s and early 2000s... Read More
Low-Key Like an Outer Banks Local
My mom and I took a mini trip to Ocracoke last year in the springtime. In typical Ocracoke fashion, we knew better than to check the ferry schedule, trusting instead that one would be along eventually. We waited in the line of cars at the ferry station, waiting for the next boat to arrive. One man among us grew... Read More
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