Hated to leave....
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Dale Gribble
Can't starve us out; Can't make us run
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Looks like part of Silver Lake Harbor on Ocracoke.
That’s the CG station in the backgound.
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Dale Gribble
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I could live there.
“You’d get tired of it.”
Not a chance in hell.
“You’d get tired of it.”
Not a chance in hell.
Chuckman
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Honestly I have not met too many beaches or coastal areas I would "get tired of"....
I could get tired of anywhere there are more tourists than locals....Then again i get tired of my neighbors and they are all locals...Guess im screwed. Nice pic though, Its hard to hate that photo.
OP
You're right . Very cramped and crowded. One should never visit. Please stay away. I mean, there's about 400 people on the 12 mile long island. And the roar of ATV engines is so much more soothing than listening to the breeze off the sound, the bird sounds, the quiet.....
By the way, here's the rest.....
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Ding ding ding! Right you are.
Of course now, it's a very expensively maintained (but rarely used) "teachers retreat" funded by us all.
I loved Ocracoke as a kid. Took my wife a few years ago. She was a bit perturbed that you couldn't walk to the beach anywhere until she saw why. Bumping uglies on the beach during broad daylight without any fear of getting caught is a nice change of pace from some d*head setting up 15ft from your chairs and casting a line on top of you while you play in the ocean.
Find you any intact Scotch Bonnets?
Didn’t a big rig get stuck out there a few years ago?
That's the best time to go to the beach Oct/Nov. quiet no tourist
Funny thing is, out on Core Banks guys used old bread trucks as fishing trucks/ campers
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Bet they don't get struck either, Because they know how to drive in the sand. Lower tire pressure Etc...
It's hard trapping coyotes on the beach.
I'm out.
I'm out.
DCGallim
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It’s hard catching reds and flounder in Sandy Ridge.
We built and owned a canal front house on Ocracoke years ago - over near Oyster Creek. This was when it was still cheap and remote - before it got "discovered" by tourists and publicized by "Dr. Beach". It was basically still a fishing village back then. You got up at 5am, hit the Pony Island for breakfast, and were pulling your first flounder, blue or trout out of Teach's Hole or Wallace Channel by 6:30. Or, you could surf fish at the point, if that was your thing. At night, you could hit Howard's (or later, the Jolly Roger) for a beer, but that was about it for entertainment. My dad sold the place years ago, when my brothers and I grew up and the family was going in too many different directions to truly enjoy the place together.
It's still much better than most beach areas, but it is way too hippy/yuppie chic now, in my bitter and biased opinion.
It's still much better than most beach areas, but it is way too hippy/yuppie chic now, in my bitter and biased opinion.
Chuckman
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My godparents had a waterfront home on Harkers Island before it was cool. I would LOVE to have a house on Harkers Island. It's much more expensive now, but I still think it's out of the way enough that it's not been "discovered". I hate how "discovered" our beaches and islands have become.
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We did. Two perfect ones, and a perfect fist sized helmet shell !
OP
Jolly Roger got wiped by Dorian. While there's some lumber stacked up indicating someone might work on it, it's not been open-able since the storm (like a bunch of other places).
Pony Island is still good for breakfast
Howards is still there, though no longer open 365 days/yr.
Still lots of flounder/shrimp.
Ocracoke has just the right amount of entertainment. We started going around 20 yrs ago and go at least once or twice a year.
Now this is true.
I always meet more and more folk from up north every time I'm on the beach fishing. Kure is not the same beach I remember as a kid.
I just saw that the Pony Island was for sale for a cool $3.5 million. It'll probably get snapped up and sanitized by a chain. As for us, we were there to get away from other people and to fish, so any entertainment apart from fishing, telling lies in O'Neill's or drinking on the rooftop deck afterwards was not a going concern. I hate to hear about the Jolly Roger. Hopefully, they get it back up and running.
We quit going to Kure a few years back. Kure is what Carolina used to be, Carolina is on the way to becoming Myrtle.
No end to what the great northern immigrants won't ruin.
And that's the damn truth!
They opened up the western end Oak Island just today and we drove all the way down to the point. Tons of debris and sand, and this little tidbit I overheard being discussed by two yankees:
"I can't believe they would open it up to people. I don't care if they live here or not, it's just too dangerous!"
Nevermind how in the hell they even got there. Every last one wants to shut the gate behind them.
"I can't believe they would open it up to people. I don't care if they live here or not, it's just too dangerous!"
Nevermind how in the hell they even got there. Every last one wants to shut the gate behind them.
I haven’t been to Ocracoke in over thirty five years. It was early September and the tourist were gone with mainly people fishing and walking. That is how I like it. I don’t need entertainment beyond family and friends anymore.
Well on Ocracoke, the locals didn't realize the value of the land. They thought folks were crazy for paying $10k an acre for land and sold it as fast as they could for a long time. By the time they realized their error, it was too late and the new blood had taken control. Now, few true locals remain because a lot were forced to move to the mainland because they can no longer afford to live or make a living there. It is the only oceanfront area in Hyde County, it is the easiest way to support the rest of the county and it is taxed accordingly.
The Island has been discovered . . .
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Not too much different from that these days. By 9 PM you could probably almost have dinner in the middle of "Highway" 12.
Chuckman
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And that's a damn shame for many reasons. That is the only place that had that specific dialect, and because I spent so much time there as a young lad, when we moved to Central North Carolina I had a little bit of that. They wanted to put me in speech therapy because they thought I had a speech problem.