🏖️ The Outer Banks of North Carolina 🏖️
Hatteras Island
The Outer Banks stretch along North Carolina’s coast like a necklace jeweled with lighthouses. A once-wild place that’s played a part in our nation’s history from the first English child born in the New World to the first flight taken by humankind to the first foothold of the U.S. Life Saving Service (now called the Coast Guard) in North Carolina, much of the wildness has been tamed. Many visitors think of the northern villages – from Nags Head to Duck – and the rows of beach houses, hotels and restaurants as The Outer Banks, forgetting the untamed nature and the yesteryear charm of Hatteras Island. Simply put, Hatteras Island is the only place where you can experience a bit of what life was like on the Outer Banks before the world found us.
Villages to Visit
Seven villages, two lighthouses, and one National Seashore make up
Hatteras Island.
In every village and town – Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Avon, Buxton,
Frisco, and Hatteras Village – the past rubs up against the present and
in waters where wooden fishing boats once hauled in the day’s catch in a
hand-woven net, sleek fishing boats carry charters out to the Gulf
Stream and modern trawlers haul in a ton of shrimp at a time; the Bodie
Island and Cape Hatteras Lighthouses run on electricity, not whale oil,
but their lights shine out across the hidden dangers of Diamond Shoals
and Oregon Inlet all the same; and everywhere you look it’s unlike any
other place in the world.
OBX.org website