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 10 On Your Side Investigates: What's being done to improve the Bonner Bridge? 10 On Your Side Investigates: What's being done to improve the Bonner Bridge? Instead of pylons -- stacks of paperwork continue to build. A new bridge needs to be built, but no one can agree on how to go about it. Read a report and view a video by WAVY, Channel 10, based in Portsmouth, Va., about the long struggle to replace the aging Bonner Bridge over Oregon Inlet. Read more.... Plans for replacing the Bonner Bridge are moving forward - for now A team of state officials agreed on Aug. 27 that the short bridge with a phased approach to Highway 12 problems should be the choice for replacing the aging Bonner Bridge. But environmental groups threw the replacement efforts into a tailspin the very next day. Read more.... Adrift on Bonner Bridge…State and federal governments try to agree on a replacement bridge Everyone agrees that the Bonner Bridge needs to be replaced, but the state’s subsequent plan to replace parts of Highway 12 through a wildlife refuge with a series of bridge is still a point of contention. From the News & Observer in Raleigh. Read more....  Should these bridge pictures make you nervous? Pictures that are circulating on Hatteras might give you goose bumps about driving over the Bonner Bridge, but a DOT bridge engineer says there is nothing to worry about. Read more....   Kinnakeet vacations
Mark Augustson is a Hatteras Island native who now lives in Cary, N.C. His family includes Grays from Avon, and he often returns there to vacation. He says he misses the island and has shared some of his favorite photos with us.  Winter on Ocracoke
Ben Spain of Tarboro, N.C., a regular visitor to Hatteras and Ocracoke islands for many years, took these photographs on a weekend trip to Ocracoke in February.  Deer Go To
School
Cape Hatteras Elementary School first-grade teacher Trish Dempsey took these photographs of a doe and her fawn just outside her classroom window on Feb. 25. "It was so cool," observed Dempsey, "they stayed around for a few minutes, giving students time to check them out! How neat is this?"  Salvo Sunset
Jenny Hooper of Salvo sent us these photos of a January sunset at the National Park Service's Salvo Day Use Area.  A little piece of Heaven Paul and Shirley Kelly of New Milford, Pa., have owned a unit at Hatteras Cabanas for 24 years. Shirley says they have trouble thinking of another place that they want to vacation. They already thought they had found their “little piece of heaven” when they came for a visit in late October. “This beautiful rainbow happened on a gloomy week for us in Hatteras,” Shirley says, “but it reminded us how, even in the dreariness, we seem to always find something glorious to make our time there memorable. The photo were taken on Oct. 26 from the upper deck of Cabana 16. The cabanas were totally destroyed in Hurricane Isabel in 2003. “It is wonderful just to be back and part of our beautiful community again,” Shirley says.  A bagpiper on the beach Only on Hatteras would you be riding your bicycle through the village on the day before Thanksgiving and hear a bagpipe rendition of “Amazing Grace” coming from the other side of the dunes, but that is what happened to Buddy and Anne Swain. “Knowing that to be a bit unusual,” Buddy says, “we parked the bikes and did a little investigating. As we crested the dunes, there, silhouetted by the sun, was the guy you see below playing his heart out. Of course, I raced home, got my trusty camera, returned and clicked away.” We’re sorry we don’t know the name of the bagpiper, but if you do, please let us send it along.
Fire in the Sky Many
of us believe that only on Hatteras and Ocracoke can you view winter's
most spectacular sunsets. These photos of the sun setting on
the Pamlico Sound were taken by Lynne Murray of Frisco from her home in
Brigand's Bay. And they do, indeed, look like there is a fire
on the horizon.
Taking a marlin for a walk Only on Hatteras can you see a blue marlin being taken for a walk. As renovation work progressed on the Hatteras Village Community building, the world record blue marlin had to be moved from the glass display case in the front of the building to safer quarters. The marlin will reside at the Hatteras Marlin Club until the work is complete. After a beauty treatment, the marlin will return to a refurbished showcase in the front of the building for all to admire. The original plan was for the men pictured to load the marlin in a truck for the trip to its temporary home. However, the day was nice and the Marlin Club is only a short distance, so they decided to take the giant fish for a walk.
Fall on
Ocracoke
Only on Hatteras and Ocracoke are the colors in the late afternoon sky so lovely. These photos were taken on Ocracoke by Jo Anna Chrismon of Clayton, N.C., on Sept. 27 of last year. "Ocracoke is my piece of heaven, and I try to pay an annual homage trip there," Jo Anna says. 
A
white winter on Pea Island
Swans and white pelicans share the ponds at The Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge on Hatteras in this photo taken by Ed Rebstock on Jan. 8. Ed says he thought all the birds on the pond were swans until he looked at his photos and noticed the white pelicans.
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