Outer Banks Posts

🍀🐢 SHAKE YOUR SHAMROCKS AT JOLLY ROGER! 🐢🍀
We’re kicking off St. Patty’s Week OBX style with Boot Scootin’ Beaches, sea turtles, and a whole lot of fun! 🌊👢
Join us Wednesday, March 11th for a special N.E.S.T. Sea Turtle Fundraiser during Working Women’s Wednesday at Jolly Roger Restaurant.
🎶 Live Music with Phil Watson starts at 5PM
👢 FREE Line Dancing (all levels) 6:30–8PM
🍹 Event happening in the NEW BAR 6–8PM
💎🎨Vendors Onsite in Upstairs Viewing Area
🐢 N.E.S.T. representatives will be on the dance floor sharing information about sea turtle conservation and how you can help protect them right here on the Outer Banks.
✨ Event Menu & Specials available in the New Bar from 6–8PM:
🍹 Signature Drink – The Tipsy Turtle
Pineapple • Malibu Rum • Blue Curaçao
$10 tropical goodness 🍍🐢
🍴 Specialty Bites:
• Pretzel Bites
• Reuben Eggrolls
• Cheeseburger Sliders
• Boboli Pizza
🍽 Full Jolly Roger menu will still be available in the restaurant during the event.
Break out your boots, your green gear, and your beach spirit and come help us support N.E.S.T. and our local sea turtles while we dance, drink, and celebrate St. Patty’s week! 🍀🌊🐢
Good music, good drinks, great cause — see you at Jollys!

Come out this Saturday for one of our Taste of the Beach events! 🥂 Welcome to Bubbles, Boards & Bites an elevated, cocktail-style tasting experience built around champagne, coastal flavors, and Chef Wes Stepp’s signature grazing boards. Guests will move freely through the room, sipping, sampling, and savoring a beautifully curated spread.

Do you own a rental cottage on the Outer Banks? The rental season is just around the corner, and we would love to have you join our mission by pledging an amount from each week’s rental to the Corolla Wild Horse Fund.

Our Owners are Donors program is an easy way to support the Banker horses, give back to their well-being, and show your guests you care. Become part of a growing community dedicated to protecting and preserving the Banker breed.

Owners who donate will receive a 2026 steel plaque, 2026 membership print, membership decal, refrigerator cling, and a digital graphic for your rental listing that lets your guests know you are donating to the horses.

Every dollar has an impact — together, we can help them thrive.

Our last foal of 2025, born on Christmas, with his 2-year-old brother today. ☀️

Horses live in family groups and form strong bonds with each other. These relationships are vital to the horses’ wellbeing. Healthy herd dynamics = healthy horses!

This is one of the many reasons why it’s important for humans to give the horses plenty of space, especially during foaling season. Pressure and stress can cause unrest that results in aggression, separation, rejection, and exhaustion, just to name a few things. Watch from a distance so these young ones can grow up wild and free!

These photos were taken through the binocular lens.

Conservation Action that’s for the Birds!
Bird collisions with man-made structures (also known as bird strikes) kill up to one billion birds per year in North America. These often-fatal interactions are a result of birds not recognizing that windows and glass are solid barriers. Globally, the bird populations has fallen by 25% since the 1970s, and bird collisions are a large part of the problem.

Through the support of a grant from the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island (NCARI) will be installing Feather Friendly®Bird Film on identified problem areas around the facility this spring.

Applied to the exterior of existing windows and doors and featuring a 2 by 2 grid of white squares that make glass visible to passing birds, while not significantly impacting sightlines, this unobtrusive technology is proven to be a durable, cost-effective solution to reducing bird strikes.

We can't wait for you all to see this in the Spring!

Happy March!

We are so excited for the opening of Practicing Persistence - A Pocosin Residents Exhibition this Friday, March 6 at 6:00pm. The group exhibition will feature work by Ryan Catalano (ceramics), Hannah Craft (metals), and Henry Merker (wood) who are three long-term residents at Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft.

The opening reception is free and open to the public, and will take place during the kick-off of the 2026 First Friday season in downtown Manteo. Join us!

This Saturday night is the night y'all! ⚡Get ready to laugh your way through the first Saturday evening of March 🤣 that also happens to be Daylight Savings Time! ⌚

Joy Julian and Matt White will be here to make you laugh so hard... Your face will hurt! (Thought I was gonna say something else, huh?) 😁

We've got plenty of great food 🥩🍝🍕🍟🍤🍿and beverages 🥤☕🍷🍺🍸🍹brought to you by the best bartenders and venue on the beach! ⛱️

Doors open at 8pm. Tickets are $15 on Eventbrite or at the door!

As the sun sets behind Waterside Theatre-the story comes to life. Six nights a week-and we are counting down the days until the 89th season!
From breathtaking effects, powerful performances, and the magic of OBX summer nights at Waterside Theatre.
The Lost Colony returns June 4 – August 22 on Roanoke Island.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now. Use link below!

Dogfish Head Grateful Dead glass giveaway - this Friday for Bring Your Own Vinyl Night. We'll have Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale on tap. A free glass to the first 24 pints sold. The theme for Vinyl Night is Jam Bands. Come on out and get your groove on. DJ Redacted's spinning the vinyl. Giveaway starts at 6pm. Hope to see you at the Shop!

HERE IT IS! The new 2026 limited edition Saint Patrick artwork by Moondog: “The Quest for the Prism of Gold!”
Our original design, “Eradication of the Snakes,” told the legend of Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland. This new original artwork tells another tale, that of Patrick’s role in the fable of the rainbow and the pot of gold. Patrick is joined in his covenant by his companions, Cora Ó Néill and Lugh Conor.
The design will be printed on Comfort Colors tees in Glas Green, Ór Orange, and Dubh Black. Shirts and stickers are expected to be in stock by the end of the week!

Stop by every Saturday in March from 2-5pm for live music with The O'Brothers!

This Friday!!! Join us for a grand opening celebration filled with prizes, free gifts, free beer and good vibes!
🗓 Friday, March 6th:
11:00 AM: Official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
6:00 PM: Happy Hour hosted by OluKai
🎁 Grand Opening Deals (See details below!)
📍 Find us at: 34 Harbor Blvd. #134, Destin, FL (HarborWalk Village)
Spread the word and come say hi!