Just a bit more on the name of the seashore ? Cape Hatteras National Seashore vs. Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area. Need we say more about this photo of an early official brochure for the park? As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Dennis Gray, our friend and faithful reader, found […]
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What’s in a name?
As the issue of off-road vehicle access to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore has become more contentious, the people who favor free and open access have increasingly pushed for the seashore to return to the name that Congress gave it in 1940 ? the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area. Returning to that moniker for […]
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A fish tale: Don’t leave your tails on the beach
On Sunday, April 26, a group of locals was fishing on the beach in Buxton. Part of the group headed home, but one person decided to check out the Avon beach. In his cooler were three small sea mullet that had been caught earlier, and he was hoping to add a few more for dinner […]
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Buxton takes a beating from beach closures
Buxton businesses took a beating last summer with the extensive beach resource closures, and it looks like this summer will be a repeat of last year?s scenario. Right now, the only beach in Buxton open to ORVs is four-tenths of a mile at Ramp 43. It?s a cul-de-sac with two-tenths of a mile open north […]
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Economic suffering on the islands
This letter to the editor, published this week, is from my friend Helen Hudson, who is the librarian at the Dare County Library in Hatteras village: ?April showers were often said to bring May flowers. May, 2009, will be bringing Hatteras Island residents a 12.8 percent increase in electricity costs, as well as a 6.5 […]
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Weekend report: Warm weather, heavy traffic, another closure, and Facebook
Spring was finally in the air this weekend. It was what most islanders thought was the longest winter they could remember ? day after day of wind, cold, and gray skies. There were precious few of the warmer, sunny intervals that usually punctuate the winter months here. This weekend was the first this spring that […]
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A new look for the blog
You will probably notice that my blog looks different today. That?s because the software we started with was giving us fits. So we have changed the software. This will make our Web masters happier ? and you, the readers, also. You will still have to sign in to post comments. However, if you have already […]
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Update on pedestrian access to Cape Point
The message today on pedestrian access to Cape Point by wading in the water around resource closure is, ?Yes, you can.? Yesterday, I wrote that the National Park Service would no longer allow pedestrians to wade in the water below the mean low tide line to reach the three-tenths of a mile of beach still […]
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Cape Point closed to pedestrians
National Park Service officials have closed pedestrianaccess to Cape Point. The decision will be announced in tomorrow?s Park Servicebeach access report. About two-tenths of a mile of beach just south of Ramp 44was closed to ORVs on April 14 to protect American oystercatchers exhibitingbreeding behavior. At that time, park officials said that pedestrians couldwade in […]
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Update on Cape Point access
The closure at Cape Point for American oystercatchers exhibiting breeding behavior was expanded today – from two-tenths of a mile to four-tenths of a mile. That’s double the size it was last week at this time. For now, folks can still wade below the mean low tide line to reach Cape Point, which is not […]
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