Though there has been significant progress over the past two weeks in removing the major pieces of debris from mid-May’s two home collapses, there is still a lot of work to be done to clean the Rodanthe shoreline and beyond. “It’s going to be a continual effort, and it will take many more weeks,” said […]
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After a two-year hiatus, the annual Shore Break 5K and Tide Pool Fun Run is returning to Hatteras Island on Monday, May 30, and there is still time for participants to sign up for this year’s event. The Shore Break 5K is one of two primary fundraising events for the Hatteras Island Youth Educational Fund […]
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The non-profit organization Friends of Felines Hatteras Island will be hosting their annual yard sale this Memorial Day weekend on Saturday, May 28, and Sunday, May 29, in the parking lot adjacent to the Mad Crabber Restaurant in Avon, from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. on both days. The annual yard sale, which has become […]
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The 13 Worrell 1000 competitors made an impressive landing near ORV Ramp 49 in Frisco on Thursday afternoon, May 19, on one of the final legs of their race up the Eastern Seaboard to the Virginia Beach finish line. The teams departed Atlantic Beach, NC, on Thursday morning to start an approximately five-hour trek to […]
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The first sea turtle nest of the 2022 season was found on Ocracoke Island on Friday morning, May 20, per an update from the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS). The crawl pattern indicated to CHNS biologists that the nest came from a Loggerhead sea turtle, and the nest has been marked off to protect it […]
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On Wednesday morning, May 18, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore reopened Frisco Beach Access to the public after contractor T.D. McGhee Co. from Wilmington, N.C., finished an extensive renovation project that initially launched in late 2021. The Frisco Bathhouse is located just south of Frisco village, and is one of the most popular oceanside beach accesses […]
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After a two-year hiatus, one of the most iconic and dangerous sailboat races in the world is once again heading to Hatteras Island, with a Frisco landing scheduled for Thursday, May 19. The Worrell 1000 Race launched from Hollywood Beach, Florida, on May 9, marking the start of an approximately 1,000-mile catamaran sailboat race up […]
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Starting on Monday, May 16, NOAA and their partners are exploring the wreck of the E.M. Clark, and will be streaming their diving adventures live until 5:00 p.m. Clark is the largest intact representation of a WWII tanker at a relatively shallow (260′) depth. It’s an incredible wreck that typically has lots of marine life and […]
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Volunteers are currently being recruited for an upcoming beach clean-up in Rodanthe and northern Hatteras Island, per a recent announcement from the non-profit organization Outer Banks Forever “As you may have seen in the news, two unoccupied houses collapsed into the ocean in Rodanthe yesterday, creating a large debris field along Cape Hatteras National Seashore,” […]
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N.C. Highway 12 remains closed between Oregon Inlet and Rodanthe on Wednesday morning, per an 8:00 a.m. update from the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). “The overnight high tide was not kind to our efforts to reopen the road, as more overwash and sand covers the road at the Pea Island Visitor Center and […]
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