Captain Horatio Sinbad cleaned his small brass signal gun to fire on the next North Carolina ferry to dock today in Ocracoke’s Silver Lake. “They love it,” he said about the ferry-goers while on his brigantine boat, the Meka II, which was docked at the NPS docks. “The dredge Merritt threatened to shoot back.” It’s […]
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The second day of the federal government shutdown that has closed all the Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches was another perfect beach day. And it seemed that plenty of people were managing to get to the beach by finding a place to park, closed or not, and walking over the dunes or through private property. […]
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It was a perfect beach day on Hatteras and Ocracoke, but most residents and visitors didn’t get to enjoy it on this first day of a federal government shutdown. The skies were blue and the temperatures in the mid-70s. The surf was described by some who got to try it out as “fun,” though the […]
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The real Blackbeard will be revealed but the popular myth will be on full display at the First Annual Blackbeard’s Pirate Jamboree on Ocracoke on Friday through Sunday, Oct. 25 to 27. Three years in the making, the village-wide jamboree will celebrate the last days of Blackbeard with historically authentic encampments and ship battles by […]
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By CONNIE LEINBACH Cathie Jung never expected to hold the Guinness Book of World Records distinction for smallest waist when she began wearing a corset 54 years ago. Jung and her husband, Robert, of Manteo, were in Ocracoke recently for a visit. Cathie, 76, was fine with people at SmacNally’s talking to her about her […]
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While the good news from Raleigh recently is that legislators have left the ferry tolls status quo – no tolls, the word from officials is that Ocracoke islanders will still need to be vigilant about the ferry system. “The game has changed and the rules have changed,” noted S. Henri McClees, one of a team […]
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By CONNIE LEINBACH You can’t really go wrong with helping build oyster habitat, said Gene Ballance about his and James Barrie Gaskill’s work constructing oyster-shell reefs along Springer’s Point and on Beacon Island in the Ocracoke Inlet. “Oysters are good for several things,” Ballance continued. They create fish and crab habitat, they filter the water, […]
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Ocracoke islander Valerie Mason was on her way Monday to Wilmington to claim her prize as one of three North Carolinians who won $10,000 in the latest Powerball drawing. It was her biggest win in the years that she has been playing the game. She was happy for the win, she said, noting that she […]
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For the first time since he began managing the Beachcomber Campground on Ocracoke, Sean Death has had to ask his employees to dust the bug spray bottles on the still-full shelves. “Last year at this time I was on my fourth or fifth order of bug spray,” he said, “but this year I’ve only ordered […]
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The specter of new tolls on the Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry and increased tolls on the ferries between the island and the mainland are still an issue for Ocracoke residents and visitors. This week and possibly next, the North Carolina General Assembly is continuing to hammer out a budget for 2013-2014, and ferry tolling is still in […]
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