Articles
Winter's Welcome...
Just because the skies have turned gray, the water frigid and the winds blustery doesn't mean that we batten the hatches and take shelter until warm weather returns. Winter offers us many opportunities for renewal and discovery.BIRDWATCHINGThe fall migration is long gone. Even the gulls are scarce on the beach as... Read More
Outer Banks Firsts
It's the beginning of 2014...the first part of the year. So, we've been thinking of all the Firsts that have happened here on the Outer Banks. Sure, you know some of the obvious ones that have been written about for decades - the Wright brothers' first flight, the first English child born in the New World, the first... Read More
Discovering Hidden Treasures
If you were to go to your favorite search engine and look for Ballast Point, you could wind up anywhere that has a coast. Speak to a longtime Outer Banker and they will be quick to put you into a particular place and time in their memory. Those long gone would have remembered it as a landmark as they ventured by boat... Read More
Outer Banks Inn: Diamond in the Rough
any of our favorite fairy tales are, at their core, stories of the transformative power of vision and perseverance. The story of the Outer Banks Inn is similarly a tale of remarkable transformation.In 2011 the former Budget Host Inn, long operated by a local owner, was beginning to show its age and was sold to a... Read More
Y Change? Y Not!
We all know folks who work out all of the time...we see their cars coming in and out of the gym parking lot as we drive by, or they pass us on their ultra-fast bikes. But what about the rest of us who haven't quite flipped that switch yet? How do you go from wishing you were one of them to being one of them? The... Read More