Serendipity, the Hatteras Island beach house that has captured the imagination of the public, started a new life this week on the seashore in Rodanthe. It has been relocated, renovated, and redecorated. The house, which was threatened with collapsing into the encroaching Atlantic Ocean during many storms in recent years, has always interested islanders and […]
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The Hatteras charter boat Gambler, captained by Steve Garrett, took the top prize money in the 16th annual Hatteras Village Offshore Open Fishing Tournament. Fishing days were from Wednesday, May 12, through Saturday, May15. On the last day of fishing, Gambler boated and brought to the dock just before noon the largest blue marlin, a […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN A 32-foot juvenile humpback whale that stranded itself on a shoal in Hatteras Inlet on Saturday morning was euthanized about 2 p.m. this afternoon. Michelle Bogardus, a biologist with the National Park Service, said the whale, an endangered species, was euthanized by Dr. Craig Harms from the North Carolina […]
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The National Park Service closed Ramp 44 to Cape Point yesterday when the first of six piping plover nests in the area hatched. Doug McGee, Park Service biotechnician, said today that the closure of the ramp to ORVs was to protect newly hatched piping plover chicks with the 1,000-meter buffer required in the federal-court sanctioned […]
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The National Audubon Society, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Southern Environmental Law Center weighed in yesterday on the National Park Service?s Draft Environmental Statement on off-road vehicle management on the Cape Hatteras Seashore. And they don?t like the Park Service?s preferred Alternative F ? one of six scenarios put forward in the document. So now […]
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Yesterday, my good friend Cathy Burrus called me about making a comment on the National Park Service?s Draft Environmental Impact Statement on regulating ORVs on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Cathy attended the Park Service?s public comment meeting and she had a copy of the Coalition for Beach Access ?DEIS for Dummies.? But with only […]
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The overall winner in the Ocracoke Invitational Surf-fishing Tournament was the Oceanside Anglers team from Hatteras Island. The team caught 67 fish for a total of 187 points. The annual Ocracoke tournament was on Thursday and Friday, April 29 and 30. Sixty-nine teams of six members each fished in the tournament. “The fishing could have […]
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By IRENE NOLAN By IRENE NOLAN A family reunion of sorts went terribly awry for Ernest “Lanny” Staples of Holly Spring, N.C., and his two children. Staples and the children – Jayda, 9, and Dylan, 6 – survived a tragic boat accident in Hatteras Inlet on Saturday, May 1, that claimed the life of one […]
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The National Park Service invited the public to comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on its off-road vehicle plan at a series of five meetings this week. They came and they spoke. They spoke solidly in favor of more access than the Park Service is proposing in its preferred alternative, Alternative F, in the […]
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The week of April 26 will be an important one for all who support access to the beaches of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The National Park Service is conducting a series of public meetings on the Outer Banks and in Raleigh and Hampton at which the public can speak or submit written comments on […]
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