Outer Banks This WeekArticles & Shorts

Outer Banks Articles & Shorts

If you’re like a lot of people – like hundreds of thousands of people – you love the Outer Banks of North Carolina. You might consider us presumptuous drawing this conclusion so quickly, and we would agree with you . . . except for the fact that we’re right. You love the Outer Banks beaches, the Outer Banks water sports, the Outer Banks towns, Outer Banks shops, the Outer Banks events and Outer Banks activities . . . everything about this place (you wouldn’t be on this site if you didn’t). We do too. And, lucky for you, we also love writing about the Outer Banks. Locals and visitors alike value our Outer Banks information.

Our local writers tell you how to negotiate dining out if you have a big crowd. We show you, step by step, how to pick a crab. We’ve written articles highlighting Corolla and the Currituck Outer Banks or about charming Manteo on Roanoke Island or telling you the mysteries of Ocracoke Island. We cover the events happening on the Outer Banks – and, boy, are there a lot of them to cover! Outer Banks activities, everything from water sports to walking tours to lighthouse tours to birdwatching trips, are focal points. Businesses, rituals and legends local to the Outer Banks are detailed in our articles. You’ll find out how that restaurant got its name or the modest beginning of that now-booming business. We give you insider Outer Banks information about staying safe in the ocean, how to navigate those pesky turn lanes, which restaurants to check out for the best Southern cuisine in the area and resorts’ present and future aspirations. Our Outer Banks articles are good reading. You’ll feel like a local with all the knowledge you’re sure to collect! And we’re adding to them all the time. Click on in to learn about the Outer Banks from the locals' side!

 

Creating a Culture of Community...For All!

Outer Banks Family YMCA
By Amelia Boldaji
Tis the season for New Year resolutions, and for lots of us that means taking stock of our habits and deciding which ones we’d like to change. It’s not surprising then that it’s also a season when many of us are thinking about ways to become more healthy and, well, active.  At the Outer Banks Family YMCA, these are... Read More

Soundfront Luxury, Island Style

Pirate's Cove Realty
By Amelia Boldaji
You could make the argument that everything’s about location — and on the Outer Banks we pretty much hit the jackpot on that. Of course we all have our favorite spots, and for many of us the charms of Roanoke Island top the list. Just consider that moment when you crest the Washington Baum Bridge headed toward the... Read More

Written in Wood

Whalehead
By Beth P. Storie
The story of a place like Whalehead has been written in words and images through the years. But these forms of history are, by nature, subjective as they are given to us through the eyes and thoughts of the beholders. Not so the story written in wood, glass and copper. That’s a story that is substantial, unchangeable... Read More

Histories of the Deep

By Beth P. Storie
Volumes of history are written under the waters that surround the Outer Banks, but none of it was written on purpose. Most all of it was borne of a tragedy in the form of a shipwreck. When most of us think of shipwrecks, here in the Graveyard of the Atlantic where so many ships have gone down, we imagine an ocean... Read More

Honestly Wild

By Beth P. Storie
There's poetry in the rhythm of horse hooves - a running hip hop cadence. There's an entire vibrational song in the flutter of wings all around us. There's the droning base line of insects as they add the constancy of a background note. Listen: Here on the Outer Banks, we're surrounded by a virtual symphony of... Read More